DocumentCode
2072296
Title
Flight qualified micro sun sensor for Mars applications
Author
Mobasser, Sohrab ; Liebe, Carl Christian ; Naegle, James ; Lee, Choonsup
Author_Institution
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
fYear
2005
fDate
9-11 June 2005
Firstpage
234
Lastpage
239
Abstract
A flight qualified micro sun sensor is being developed and flight qualified for future Mars missions. The micro sun sensor, which is basically a small pinhole camera, consists of a small mask with pinholes, placed on top of an image detector. Images of the sun are formed on the image detector when the sun illuminates the mask. Image processing is performed in the sun sensor that outputs sun centroids.
Keywords
Mars; aerospace instrumentation; microsensors; space vehicles; Mars missions; flight qualified micro sun sensor; image detector; image processing; mask; pinhole camera; Cameras; Gold; Image sensors; Laboratories; Mars; Optical sensors; Propulsion; Scanning electron microscopy; Silicon; Sun;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Recent Advances in Space Technologies, 2005. RAST 2005. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8977-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/RAST.2005.1512568
Filename
1512568
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