Medium Sun Sensor
Space Micro
Legacy low-cost, two-axis, passive medium-resolution sun sensor, 60 deg FOV, 36g, 20+ years flight heritage.
About
Space Micro’s Medium Sun Sensor is a low cost, two-axis, medium-resolution sun sensor with 20 years of flight heritage, designed to provide attitude determination information during launch vehicle separation, initial attitude acquisition, and emergency/off-nominal modes. Can also provide coarse sun vector determination as a backup to higher resolution sensors. Fully passive, drawing no power. Flown on ALEXIS, HETE, TERRIERS, and FASTSAT.
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