Integrated inertial stellar attitude sensor

An integrated inertial stellar attitude sensor for an aerospace vehicle includes a star camera system, a gyroscope system, a controller system for synchronously integrating an output of said star camera system and an output of said gyroscope system into a stream of data, and a flight computer respon...

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Main Authors ANTHONY S. KOUREPENIS, WILLIAM F. JR. WYMAN, TYE M. BRADY
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 02.02.2004
Edition7
Subjects
AIRCRAFT
AVIATION
COSMONAUTICS
GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS
MEASURING
MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS
NAVIGATION
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
PHYSICS
SURVEYING
TESTING
TRANSPORTING
VEHICLES OR EQUIPMENT THEREFOR
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Summary:An integrated inertial stellar attitude sensor for an aerospace vehicle includes a star camera system, a gyroscope system, a controller system for synchronously integrating an output of said star camera system and an output of said gyroscope system into a stream of data, and a flight computer responsive to said stream of data for determining from the star camera system output and the gyroscope system output the attitude of the aerospace vehicle.
Bibliography:Application Number: AU20030247873