Low-Cost Raspberry Pi Star Sensor for Small Satellites
Bharat Chandra P, Mayuresh Sarpotdar, Binukumar G. Nair, Richa Rai, Rekhesh Mohan, Joice Mathew, Margarita Safonova, Jayant Murthy
We present here a low-cost Raspberry Pi (RPi)-based star sensor StarberrySense using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components, developed and built for applications in small satellites and CubeSat-based missions. A star sensor is one of the essential instruments onboard a satellite for attitude determination. However, most commercially available star sensors are expensive and bulky to be used in small satellite missions. StarberrySense is a configurable system — it can operate as an imaging camera, a centroiding camera, or as a star sensor. We describe the algorithms implemented in the sensor, its assembly and calibration. This payload was selected by a recent Announcement of Opportunity call for payloads to fly on the PS4-Orbital Platform by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
Comments: J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst (Accepted)
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cite as: arXiv:2207.03087 [astro-ph.IM] (or arXiv:2207.03087v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.03087
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From: Bharat Chandra
[v1] Thu, 7 Jul 2022 04:50:07 UTC (12,735 KB)
