Star tracker on a chip pre-development (Phase 1)
Programme Reference
T705-031EC
Status
Closed
Country
Italy
Start Date
2011
End Date
2015
Programme: TDE Prime Contractor: SELEX SISTEMI INTEGRATI S.P.A.
Objectives
The objective is to perform a pre-development of a star tracker on a chip and get a proof-of-concept.
Description
The Sensor on a chip activity has shown the feasibility of a 75g, 0.2 watt, 30 arcsecond accuracy fully autonomous star tracker with all functionality implemented on a single chip. Several key unknowns however still exist and can only be verified by test.These include: Optical quality achievable, on chip NVM behavious, radiation behaviour of key functions, noise cross talk and power management. Phase 0 of this predevelopment shall concentrate on demonstrating the optical elements including bonding to the silicon substrate and environmental testing.
• Application domain: Generic Technologies
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Technology Domain:
5 - Space System Control
5 - Space System Control
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Competence Domain:
3-Avionic Systems
3-Avionic Systems
• Initial TRL: TRL 2
• Target TRL: TRL 2
•HarmoRoadMap: N/A
•IPC Document: n/a
•Public Document:
