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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Recent Advances in Space Technologies, 2005. RAST 2005. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8977-8
DOI :
10.1109/RAST.2005.1512568
