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Flight Qualified Micro Sun Sensor for Mars ApplicationsA Right qualified micro sun sensor is being developed and flight qualified for future Man 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.
Document ID
20090019047
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Mobasser, Sohrab
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Liebe, Carl Christian
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Naegle, James
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Lee, Choonsup
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
June 9, 2005
Subject Category
Instrumentation And Photography
Meeting Information
Meeting: 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)
Location: Istanbul
Country: Turkey
Start Date: June 9, 2005
End Date: June 11, 2005
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Mars
micro sun sensor

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