Radiation Hard High Precision Agile Star Tracker

Space Micro, teamed with SAIC and Octant, propose a high performance, rad hard star tracker based on proven CMOS APS device technology. 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 three 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. In addition to our baseline concept, we will monitor other DoD SBIR activities and insert if they appear to viable and producible.