Submission + - STS-127 To Launch SpaceX's DragonEye Sensor (quantumg.net)
QuantumG writes: "Shuttle Flight STS-127 Detailed Test Objective 701B will test SpaceX's DragonEye sensor, it will use a flash of Light Intensification Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), to provide a three-dimensional image of the station based on the time of flight of a single laser pulse from the sensor to the target and back. It provides both range and bearing information from targets that can reflect the light back such as the Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 and those on the nadir side of station's Japanese Experiment Module. No-one seems to be reporting this, so I am!"