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A videometer is a European designed automatic docking system that guides an Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) towards the docking port of the Russian Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station (ISS). The ATV uses relative global positioning system (GPS) in order to close in on the ISS up to a distance of 249 m. Hereafter the ATV uses two videometers, together with additional data from telegoniometers, to automatically complete the docking manouver. Both videometers are active during rendezvous with one acting as a back-up

Retroreflectors located on the aft end of Zvezda module accurately reflect pulsed laser beams emitted by the videometer on the front of the ATV. The spot patterns of laser light returned from the passive reflectors are analysed by the image processors on the ATV to give its relative position and orientation to the ISS. The beam travel time to the videometer's 26 retroreflectors,contained in a 25mm cube, compute the distance between the two spacecraft and thus allowing it to identify, approach and mate to Zvezda’s docking mechanism.

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-A videometer is a European designed automatic docking system that guides an [[automated transfer vehicle]] (ATV) towards the docking port of the  Russian ]]Zvezda Service Module]] of the [[International Space Station]] (ISS). The ATV uses relative [[global positioning system ]] (GPS) in order to close in on the ISS up to a distance of 249 m. Hereafter the ATV uses two videometers, together with additional data from telegoniometers, to automatically complete the docking manouver. Both videometers are active during rendezvous with one acting as a back-up
+A videometer is a European designed automatic docking system that guides an [[Automated Transfer Vehicle]] (ATV) towards the docking port of the  Russian [[Zvezda Service Module]] of the [[International Space Station]] (ISS). The ATV uses relative [[global positioning system ]] (GPS) in order to close in on the ISS up to a distance of 249 m. Hereafter the ATV uses two videometers, together with additional data from telegoniometers, to automatically complete the docking manouver. Both videometers are active during rendezvous with one acting as a back-up
-Retroreflectors located on the aft end of Zvezda module accuratelt reflect pulsed laser beams emitted by the videometer on the front of the ATV. The spot patterns of laser light returned from the passive reflectors are analysed by the image processors on the ATV to give its relative position and orientation to the ISS. The travel time of the pulses, which are reflected
+Retroreflectors located on the aft end of Zvezda module accurately reflect pulsed laser beams emitted by the videometer on the front of the ATV. The spot patterns of laser light returned from the passive reflectors are analysed by the image processors on the ATV to give its relative position and orientation to the ISS. The beam travel time to the videometer's 26 retroreflectors,contained in a 25mm cube, compute the distance between the two spacecraft and thus allowing it to identify, approach and mate to Zvezda’s docking mechanism.
-back to the videometer's 26 retroreflectors,contained in a 25mm cube, gives the distance between the two spacecraft and thus allowing it to identify, approach and mate to Zvezda’s docking mechanism.