Description of tracker which is essentially telescope in two degrees of freedom gimbal system; it is continuously torqued to null angular error between target star and position of telescope; use of tracker as attitude reference system for future spacecraft; since star trackers are inherently drift free, they are ideally suited to long term operation; automatic in-flight calibration; analysis of noise and of gimbal torquing loops.
Hybrid star tracker
IEEE -- East Coast Conf Aerospace Navigational Electronics -- Tech Paper
IEEE Meeting of 11th East Coast Conference on Aerospace and Navigational Electronics ; 1964 Tracking
1964
6 pages
Conference paper
English
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STAR TRACKER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE STAR TRACKER
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