Digital Standard Star Tracker
Abstract
The Digital Standard Star Tracker (DSST) is an electro-optical instrument which provides position data used for precise attitude determination. The new DSST design uses flight-proven optical and sensor components from the BASD/NASA Standard Star Tracker (SST) programs while incorporating digital electronics techniques to improve producibility and reliability. This design approach has resulted in a new instrument capable of less than 10 arc second calibrated accuracy with 50 percent of the electrical components and only 10 percent of the electrical assemblies used in the SST.
- Publication:
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IN: Guidance and control 1984; Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Rocky Mountain Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984guco.proc..173M
- Keywords:
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- Attitude Indicators;
- Digital Systems;
- Instrument Errors;
- Reliability Engineering;
- Spacecraft Instruments;
- Star Trackers;
- Digital Electronics;
- Electro-Optics;
- Flight Instruments;
- Nasa Programs;
- Navigation Instruments;
- Position Indicators;
- Standards;
- Spacecraft Instrumentation