SME/UCE - Simulation & Test Equipment for Spacecraft Star Sensor
Customer: industrial Prime Contractor (for several end Customers)
Year
: 2007 on – manufactured in 5 sets, also deliverable to satellite
system integrator
Main features
: simulation of the CCD
(first generation), resp. APS (second generation) signal from the optical head
of an Autonomous Star Tracker for spacecraft, with dynamic representation of
the stars in the field of view for realtime test of the spacecraft AOCS
(Attitude & Orbit Control System) including attitude loss and
re-acquisition manœuvers; conduction-cooled front-end module to interface the unit during
thermal vacuum test
