CubeSat technology is evolving rapidly. With the increased performance of these small spacecraft platforms, astronomical missions on CubeSats will be flown in the near future. These types of missions have very demanding requirements in terms of spacecraft pointing. At the KU Leuven university, we have developed a compact, highaccuracy attitude determination and control system for CubeSats. The system uses three reaction wheels and a star tracker to deliver high agility and accuracy. In this paper, we will discuss the test and calibration campaign that was carried out. This campaign was instrumental in achieving the performance required by astronomical missions.


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    Title :

    Testing and calibrating an advanced cubesat attitude determination and control system


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave ; 2018 ; Austin,Texas,United States


    Published in:

    Proc. SPIE ; 10698


    Publication date :

    2018-07-06





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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