Hardware-in-the-loop images captured by a camera mounted on a robotic arm at the TRON facility at the Space Rendezvous Laboratory (SLAB) of a model satellite on another robotic arm. Specifically, this facility is constructed to mimic realistic illumination conditions by use of lightboxes with diffuser plates for albedo simulation and a sunlamp to simulate direct high-intensity homogeneous illumination from the Sun. This setup allows for interesting visual features like stray lights, shadowing, reflections and extreme exposures on finest level of detail which would be in general difficult to obtain by conventional computer graphics.