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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2003
Tye M. Brady, Southborough, MA (US);
Anthony S. Kourepenis, Acton, MA (US);
William F. Wyman, Jr., North Falmouth, MA (US);
Tye M. Brady, Southborough, MA (US);
Anthony S. Kourepenis, Acton, MA (US);
William F. Wyman, Jr., North Falmouth, MA (US);
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
An integrated inertial stellar attitude sensor for an aerospace vehicle includes a star camera system, a gyroscope system, a controller system for synchronously integrating an output of said star camera system and an output of said gyroscope system into a stream of data, and a flight computer responsive to said stream of data for determining from the star camera system output and the gyroscope system output the attitude of the aerospace vehicle.