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OTTAWA, April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Neptec Technologies Corp., a spin-out of Neptec Design Group Ltd., an award-winning space flight technology company and NASA Prime Contractor, today announced the launch of a range of innovative obscurant-penetrating 3D laser scanners (OPAL 2.0) for harsh environments and a software development tool kit (3DRi) with real-time features such as automatic change detection and object recognition and tracking. These out-of-the-box "building...

NASA engineers and contractors have worked together for the past two years on a technology that would make it easier for future space vehicles to dock to the International Space Station.Developed by the Orion Project Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Vision Navigation Sensor, or VNS, as well as a docking camera, have the ability to advance the capability necessary for automated rendezvous and docking. The system, which will be tested on STS-134, scheduled for this July, is...