The Sensor Test for Orion RelNav Risk Mitigation (STORRM) Development Test Objective

ash LIDAR, called the Vision Navigation Sensor (VNS), will be the primary navigation instrument used by the Orion vehicle during rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking. The DC will be used by the Orion crew for piloting cues during docking. This paper provides an overview of the STORRM test objectives and the concept of operations. It continues with a description of STORRM’s major hardware components, which include the VNS, docking camera, and supporting avionics. Next, an overview of crew and analyst training activities will describe how the STORRM team prepared for ight. Then an overview of in-ight data collection and analysis is presented. Key ndings and results from this project are summarized. Finally, the paper concludes with lessons learned from the STORRM DTO.