ATV Georges Lemaitre Set To Test New Rendezvous Sensors

ESA’s space freighter ATV Georges Lemaitre, set for launch this summer, will test new rendezvous sensors in space as it approaches the International Space Station. ESA has set its sights on allowing future spacecraft to rendezvous with "uncooperative" targets, such as orbiting debris or a Mars sample capsule. The LIRIS demonstrator – short for Laser InfraRed Imaging Sensors – on the last Automated Transfer Vehicle, or ATV, is the first step towards an uncooperative rendezvous in space. More

(Source: Red Orbit - Mar 20)