Gen 1: CubeStar
$15390
CubeStar is a miniature, low-power, medium-accuracy star tracker for CubeSat and small satellites. The low power is achieved by lowering the update rate to 1 Hz, using a wide field-of-view lens, and designing power-efficient electronics. CubeStar outputs inertially referenced attitude quaternions or matched vector pairs for use in an external ADCS application.
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Lead Time: 16 weeks
Description
Features:
- Low power – less than 142Mw average power
- Wide FOV lens – 99% sky coverage
- Low mass – less than 60g
- Simple design with 4 mounting holes
Technical Specifications
| Performance | |
| Accuracy | 0.02° (across boresight)
3-sigma |
| Max Slew Rate [°/s] | 0.3 |
| Update Rate [Hz] | Up to 1 |
| Field of View [°] | 42 |
| Physical | |
| Mass [g] | 55 |
| Dimensions [mm] | 50x35x55 |
| Operating Temperature [°C] | -10 to 60 |
| Power & Data | |
| Supply Voltage | 3.3V |
| Average Power [mW] | 142 |
| Peak Power [mW] | 264 |
| Communications | I2C/UART |
| Qualification | |
| Vibrations | 14g RMS |
| 24kRad> | 24kRad |
Trade-off Table
| Performance | |
| Eclipse Performance | Very high |
| Eclipse Availability | High |
| Sunlight Performance | Very high |
| Sunlight Availability | Sensitive to sun in FOV |
| Attitude Determination | Roll, pitch and yaw |
| Typical Applications |
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| Earth Observation (EO)
Communications |
