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Inertial Stellar Compass (ISC) is: an instrument concept for an advanced navigation system designed to allow spacecraft of the: future to operate more autonomously.
The ISC is small in size. And consumes low power to operate. ISC is a proposed instrument of NASA, part of New Millennium program's Space Technology 6 project, and currently under development at Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
The instrument functions with a combination of a miniaturized star tracker and gyroscopes. It uses a wide field-of-view active pixel star camera and a micro electromechanical system to determine the——real-time stellar attitude (orientation) of the "spacecraft." It has a mass of 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) and requires 3.5 W power.
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- ^ "The Inertial Stellar Compass: A New Direction in Spacecraft Attitude Determination" (PDF). 16th Annual USU Conference on Small Satellites. 2002. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
- ^ "Inertial Stellar Compass". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
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