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Key highlights
The Serenum Space NSS3 Sun Sensor is a small and lightweight device designed for aerial, suborbital, and space applications. for CubeSat missions which demand high ADCS requirements. The device is fully autonomous and has a digital I2C interface.
Applications
- Accurate Sun position determination
- Satellite attitude determination
- Satellite solar panel positioning
- Suborbital rockets, balloons, and UAVs control
Key features
- Precise, small-size, and lightweight
- Fully autonomous
- Cubesat Space Protocol (CSP) over I2C or I2C slave mode option
- Own microcontroller
- Factory calibrated
- Radiation tolerant >60 krad (Si)
- Minimal space needed on the satellite surface
- Non-magnetic construction
- Integrated temperature and power bus voltage sensors
- Health statistic data
- Interface status data, uptime, counters
Flight heritage
The system has acheived flight heritage.
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Last updated: 2022-05-25
Technical specs
mass
3 g
width
20.5 mm
length
10.5 mm
height
4.8 mm
supply voltage
2.7 to 3.7 V
supply current
< 2.2 mA @ 3.3 V (active mode)
field of view
> ±50 deg
pointing accuracy
< 0.02 deg @ 1𝜎 (w/o albedo)
measurement rate
10 measurements per second
operating temperature
-40 °C to 85 °C (100 TVC cycles -70 °C to +110 °C)
radiation tolerance
> 60 krad (Si)
lifetime
2 yr
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