20 July 2022 Low-cost Raspberry Pi star sensor for small satellites
Bharat Chandra P., Mayuresh Sarpotdar, Binukumar G. Nair, Richa Rai, Rekhesh Mohan, Joice Mathew, Margarita Safonova, Jayant Murthy
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Abstract

We present a low-cost Raspberry Pi-based star sensor StarberrySense using commercial-off-the-shelf components, developed and built for applications in small satellites and CubeSat-based missions. A star sensor is one of the essential instruments on board a satellite for attitude determination. However, most commercially available star sensors are expensive and too bulky for use in small satellite missions. StarberrySense is a configurable system—it can operate as an imaging camera, a centroiding camera, or a star sensor. We describe the algorithms implemented in the sensor, its assembly, and its calibration. This payload was selected by a recent announcement of an opportunity call for payloads to fly on the PS4-Orbital Platform by the Indian Space Research Organization.

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Bharat Chandra P., Mayuresh Sarpotdar, Binukumar G. Nair, Richa Rai, Rekhesh Mohan, Joice Mathew, Margarita Safonova, and Jayant Murthy "Low-cost Raspberry Pi star sensor for small satellites," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 8(3), 036002 (20 July 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.8.3.036002
Received: 9 February 2022; Accepted: 30 June 2022; Published: 20 July 2022
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KEYWORDS
Star sensors

Stars

Satellites

Image sensors

Sensors

Image processing

Cameras

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