Through a Small Business Innovation Research grant from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Servo Corporation of America, Inc. built its Mini-Dual Sensor to provide attitude control for Earth-orbiting unmanned satellites. The sensor is an Earth horizon sensor that provides higher accuracy through the use of pyroelectric arrays and a patented radiance compensation scheme.This sensor gathers data with two pairs of lithium tantalate pyroelectric arrays that are positioned 90 degrees apart in the imaging plane. The Mini-Dual Earth Sensor is a high-accuracy sensor that could be used for attitude determination in future space missions.
Got an Attitude Problem?
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NTIS | 1999
NTRS | 2006
|On the Constrained Attitude Control Problem
NTRS | 2004
|On the Constrained Attitude Control Problem
AIAA | 2004
|Attitude control problem for flexible satellites
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