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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2002
Applicant:
Jon V. Osborn, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jon V. Osborn, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L031/052 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An integrated microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sun sensor includes a filter, microlens, aperture and a folded MEMS optical element combined with an active pixel sensor array to form an integrated spacecraft sun sensor in an integrated sealed package, offering lower power, smaller size and higher performance for use on spinning spacecraft useful in attitude determinations. Multiple like sun sensors can be disposed for increasing the reliability, spatial coverage or spatial resolution for a specific performance requirement.