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Autonomous Recalibration of Star Trackers [PDF]
<p>Star trackers must be calibrated prior to flight so that they can make accurate measurements of star positions within the instrument field of view. This calibration is usually performed in atmosphere and after the sensor is launched; it is not uncommon to observe a small shift in some of the calibration parameters.
John Enright, Brendon Vaz
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Star trackers for attitude determination [PDF]
One problem comes to all spacecrafts using vector information. That is the problem of determining the attitude. This paper describes how the area of attitude determination instruments has evolved from simple pointing devices into the latest technology, which determines the attitude by utilizing a CCD camera and a powerful microcomputer. The instruments
C C Liebe
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A catalogue of over 22,000 objects in Earth’s orbit is currently maintained, and that number is expected to double within the next decade. Novel data collection regimes are needed to scale our ability to detect, track, classify and characterize resident ...
Siddharth Dave +2 more
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A Staring Tracking Measurement Method of Resident Space Objects Based on the Star Tacker
Measuring resident space objects (RSOs) by star trackers has become a research hotspot in space situational awareness. However, the arc length measured by star trackers is too short to complete the high-precision orbit determination of the RSO.
Tingting Xu +4 more
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The forward GEM tracker of STAR at RHIC [PDF]
3 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the Conference Record of the IEEE NSS 2008, Dresden ...
Simon, F. +13 more
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An Evaluation of Low-Cost Vision Processors for Efficient Star Identification
Star trackers are navigation sensors that are used for attitude determination of a satellite relative to certain stars. A star tracker is required to be accurate and also consume as little power as possible in order to be used in small satellites.
Surabhi Agarwal +5 more
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Star Identification and Attitude Determination With Projective Cameras
Images of starfields collected by a projective camera are useful for a variety of scientific and engineering purposes. This utility is exemplified by star trackers, which are amongst the most commonly used sensors for determining the attitude of modern ...
John A. Christian, John L. Crassidis
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Stratospheric temperature measurements from nanosatellite stellar occultation observations of refractive bending [PDF]
Stellar occultation observations from space can probe the stratosphere and mesosphere at a fine vertical scale around the globe. Unlike other measurement techniques like radiosondes and aircraft, stellar occultation has the potential to observe the ...
D. L. McGuffin +8 more
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Neural Network Calibration of Star Trackers
<p>To maintain ideal performance, star trackers must be able to predict the direction of incident starlight to within a few arcseconds across the entire instrument field of view (FOV). Parametric camera models are commonly used to calculate star vectors from camera images and correct for aberrations in the instrument optics.
Shaghayegh Khodabakhshian, John Enright
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Low-Frequency Error Extraction and Compensation for Attitude Measurements from STECE Star Tracker
The low frequency errors (LFE) of star trackers are the most penalizing errors for high-accuracy satellite attitude determination. Two test star trackers- have been mounted on the Space Technology Experiment and Climate Exploration (STECE) satellite, a ...
Yuwang Lai +4 more
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