Broad angle sun sensor
Robust, flight proven and largely used equipment
This Broad Angle Sun Sensor (BASS) is used on a high number of satellites as acquisition and emergency sensor.
Features / technical details
The major technical performance are as follows :
- 360° field of view
- 2 axes, redonded,
- 1° accuracy on axis
- linear on +/- 17°,
- mass : 150 g
Categories
Applications
Potentially all spacecraft, for Sun Acquisition.
Reference customers
This BASS is used on most of the ASTRIUM Telecom, Earth observation and Science spacecraft:
- Eurostar 2000 and 3000 families for Eutelsat, Inmarsat, Intelsat, SES, …
- SPOT, HELIOS, ENVISAT, METOP, and export
- SOHO, ODIN, µ-Sats/CNES
