Mars Sample Return Terminal Rendezvous State-Based Fault Protection

What is it about?

In order for a robotic mission to bring back rocks from Mars, a spacecraft must be able to intercept and capture a container in orbit around Mars. To do this, the spacecraft has to be programmed with the ability to detect when something goes wrong, determine what happened, and fix the problem. We test out a simulation of software that does these things to enable such a mission.

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