Radiation Hard High Precision Agile Star Tracker

Space Micro, teamed with SAIC, Lockheed Martin, and Octant propose a high performance, rad hard star tracker based on proven CMOS APS device technology with integrated processing performed by our high performance rad hard single board computer. The approach that the Space Micro team will use in developing and demonstrating a radiation hardened star tracker that meets the AFRL SBIR performance goals is to highly leverage and integrate existing R&D at all four companies. Combination of new CMOS APS sensor and camera, Octant's “lost in space” LIS algorithms, and Space Micro's high performance DSP rad hard processing, enables breakthrough DoD star tracker performance.