Arcade-R2 Experiment

Autonomous Rendezvous, Control And Docking Experiment
http://ssg.dii.unipd.it/student-projects/arcade/

ARCADE stands for "Autonomous Rendezvous Control And Docking Experiment" and its goal is to design, build and test a system for autonomous docking between a chaser vehicle and a target interface. This implies the development of relative navigation sensors, attitude control actuators and a docking mechanism. After the first flight in 2011 on BEXUS 13, ARCADE is expected to take part of the Bexus 17  ...