[AR] Star Trackers, was Re: Re: Spin stabilized rocket
- From: "Ray Rocket" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "ar0cketman" for DMARC)
- To: <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 06:51:24 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 12/24/18, Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Beyond maybe 75,000km, sun sensors and star trackers
are about your only choice for external
attitude reference. Fortunately,
lightweight miniature star trackers, e.g. the
Sinclair ST-16, are now very good: point
one at any part of the sky not too close to the Sun, and
half a second later it reports full
three-axis attitude to sub-arcminute precision.)
Wow, starting at only $120,000!
I always wondered at the lack of F/OSS star tracker code. Should be able to
easily run on something like a Raspberry Pi,
Interestingly enough, NASA licenses a Linux compiled star tracker code:
https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/TOP2-265
"Low Cost Star Tracker Software - Highly accurate attitude information for low
cost COTS hardware"
Ah, just a question of proper search terms. Google's suggestion of [star
tracker matlab code] seems to be a sweet spot.
Ad Astra,
Ray
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