Congratulations to the RNS Team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for the successful completion of the Relative Navigation Sensor (RNS) Experiment.
The RNS Team developed a physically based ray tracer to create images of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). These synthetically generated images were used to test the pose estimation algorithm used in the RNS experiment, during STS-125.
The image below compares a synthetically generated image (on the left) with an actual image (on the right). The image on the right was taken from the RNS long-range camera on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS-125, in May 2009.
Solo Effects contributed to the construction of the 3D HST model and the development of the physically based renderer used to generate the simulated image on the left. See this article for more information about the RNS experiment and the software used to create the simulated image.
