<ul><li>The upcoming JAXA Epsilon medium-class mission, DESTINY+, aims to flyby multiple asteroids including Phaethon.</li><li>The mission's flyby observation instrument, TCAP, is a telescope capable of single-axis rotation.</li><li>TCAP is also used as a navigation camera for autonomous optical navigation during the closest-approach phase.</li><li>A proposed algorithm utilizing the unscented Kalman filter can mitigate misalignment-induced degradation of the optical navigation accuracy.</li></ul>

Autonomous optical navigation for DESTINY+: Enhancing misalignment robustness in flyby observations with a rotating telescope

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