Safe & Precise Landing Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)
NASA TechPort describes SPLICE as an active Game Changing Development project developing a precision-landing and hazard-avoidance suite for Moon, Mars, and other destinations. Its hazard-detection lidar, terrain-relative navigation, autonomous safe-site selection, and powered-descent guidance fuse sensors and onboard computing to land within small, uncertain zones and divert around hazards.
Identity
- Aliases
- SPLICESafe and Precise Landing-Integrated Capabilities Evolution
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- Safe & Precise Landing Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)
- Status
- active
- Types
- developmentresearch
Details
- Description
- NASA TechPort describes SPLICE as an active Game Changing Development project developing a precision-landing and hazard-avoidance suite for Moon, Mars, and other destinations. Its hazard-detection lidar, terrain-relative navigation, autonomous safe-site selection, and powered-descent guidance fuse sensors and onboard computing to land within small, uncertain zones and divert around hazards.
- End Date
- 2026-09-30
- Leads
- Participants
- Start Date
- 2017-10-01
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 14, 2026 at 06:24:18 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 14, 2026 at 06:24:18 UTC
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