Their "docking, rendezvous, and landing" technology also has space potential.
Turning points, rendezvous points, landing nodes and polling points represent the pause locations of ME to pull the data from nearby sensors.
In this paper, after brief description of rendezvous and landing scenario, aims, requirements, and design specifications of each sensor are shown.
The Phobos-Soil spacecraft was to have done a rendezvous and landing on Mars's potato-shaped moon Phobos to scoop up samples of ancient planetary building blocks and bring them back to Earth for detailed study.
The requirements for a sample acquisition during a fly-by are quite different from those of a rendezvous or a landing on the body.
Asteroid sample and return spacecraft MUSES-C has some newly-developed light weight optical sensors, in order to approach, rendezvous with, and land on the asteroid 1989ML.
Based on studies to grow the Mercury spacecraft capabilities to long-duration flights, developing space rendezvous techniques, and precision Earth landing, Project Gemini was started as a two-man program in 1962 to overcome the Soviets' lead and to support the Apollo manned lunar landing program, adding extravehicular activity (EVA) and rendezvous and docking to its objectives.
It involves rendezvousing with another asteroid, landing a probe and sending out a mini-rover to explore.
On 2001 February 12, the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker spacecraft landed on the surface of the asteroid (433) Eros after a year of observations in orbit about the asteroid.
Of the 13 DUKW's being used to carry this unit in, five were swamped soon after disembarking from the LCT, four were lost as they circled in the rendezvous area waiting to land and one capsized as they turned for the beach.
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), first spacecraft to orbit and then land on an asteroid (Eros, a near-Earth asteroid, on Feb. 12, 2001).
