Neptec's Laser Camera System for Return to Flight and Assembly Missions

Neptec's Laser Camera System (LCS) is a wide angle, high-speed, high-precision, laser scanner. Installed at the end of the new extension boom for Canadarm on the Space Shuttle for the Return to Flight missions, the scanner can inspect even hard-to-reach areas on the underside of the Shuttle that cannot normally be viewed from the Shuttle. The scanner gives NASA the ability to detect even fine