Inertial Stellar Compass
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Inertial Stellar Compass(ISC) is an instrument concept for an advanced navigation system designed to allow spacecraft of the future to operate more autonomously.
The ISC is small in size and consumes low power to operate. ISC is a proposed instrument ofNASA,part ofNew Millennium program'sSpace Technology 6project, and currently under development atCharles Stark Draper Laboratory.[1][2]
The instrument functions with a combination of a miniaturizedstar trackerandgyroscopes.It uses a wide field-of-view active pixel star camera and a micro electromechanical system to determine the real-time stellarattitude(orientation) of the spacecraft. It has a mass of 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) and requires 3.5 W power.[1]
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- ^ab"The Inertial Stellar Compass: A New Direction in Spacecraft Attitude Determination"(PDF).16th Annual USU Conference on Small Satellites.2002.RetrievedNovember 6,2022.
- ^"Inertial Stellar Compass".Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Retrieved7 January2018.
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