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Monday, July 25, 2011 at 10:49AM

Neptec's TriDAR technology to take off on Orbital's Cygnus Spacecraft

Advanced space, defence and industrial systems and applications developer Neptec Design Group will provide its TriDAR rendezvous and docking sensors to Orbital Space Science Corp.'s Cygnus Spacecraft capsule, which will be used to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). Neptec supply Orbital with thirteen TriDAR systems to support Orbital's initial round of resupply flights for the ISS.

The TriDAR vision system has been in development for almost ten years, with assistance from the Canadian Space Agency and NASA. A combination of high-precision, near-field triangulation with a long-range Time-of-Flight (LiDAR) system, it provides automated, real-time visual guidance for navigation, rendezvous and docking procedures. Its inaugural voyage into space was in August 2009 when mounted in the cargo bay of the STS-128 mission.

Speaking of the ending of NASA's space shuttle program, Neptec president and CEO Iain Christie called the timing of the announcement of his company's participation in the Orbital program "bittersweet for all of us" but, he pointed out, "this announcement shows we are taking our knowledge and experience from that program and continuing to make important contributions to the Space Station and beyond."

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