Design, development and verification of the passive Fine Sun Sensor (FSS) for the BepiColombo spacecraft is described. Major challenge in the design is to keep the detector at acceptable temperature levels while exposed to a solar flux intensity exceeding 10 times what is experienced in Earth orbit. A mesh type Heat Rejection Filter has been developed. The overall sensor design and its performance verification program is described.
BepiColombo fine sun sensor
International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2012 ; 2012 ; Ajaccio,Corsica,France
Proc. SPIE ; 10564
2017-11-20
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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