The new generation of autonomous star trackers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3221, Issue , 1997, Pages 524-535

  Eisenman, Allan Read ^a   Liebe, Carl Christian ^a   Jørgensen, John Leif ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DATA PROCESSING; DESIGN; SENSORS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; STARS;

ADVANCING TECHNOLOGIES; AUTONOMOUS STAR TRACKERS; DATA FRAMES; EXTERNAL-; GENERATION UNITS; INERTIAL SPACES; LOCKHEED MARTINS; LOW COSTS; LOWER COSTS; NEW GENERATIONS; REDUCED SIZES; ROBUST OPERATIONS; SPACE MISSIONS; SPACE PROBLEMS; SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE DETERMINATIONS; STAR CATALOGS; STAR TRACKERS; TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 0001349573     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.298121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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