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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 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.[1]
^ ab"The Inertial Stellar Compass: A New Direction in Spacecraft Attitude Determination" (PDF). 16th Annual USU Conference on Small Satellites. 2002. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
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