Author : Madhura Barshikar 1
Date of Publication :18th August 2021
Abstract: CubeSat’s demand has exponentially developed in the last several decades for space research. In today's world, the entire communication, navigation, disaster management and weather forecasting is feasible because of the vast development in the space sector. The primary concern for the satellites orbiting in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with a velocity of 25000 km/hr is stability; thus, Attitude Determination and Control Subsystems (ADCS) has implemented. A small-sized compact sun sensor is a part of ADCS which is designed and developed, having a significant role in 3 axes pointing accuracy and stability for payloads and antennas in microgravity. Sun sensor takes photons as the input from the outer space, processes the data by estimating the angular difference and gives the output to the actuators, thus has a significance in determining the orientation of a satellite in space. The designed sun sensor can withstand the temperature from -40 to 80°C. It has a total weight of 125 grams and a Field Of View (FOV) of ±40°. The sensor is designed using microcontroller STM32 and simulated using STM32CubeIDE and Proteus and SolidWorks software. Newly developed Sun Sensor can cover 160° spanning coverage as designed with high reliability. The designed Sun sensonis used for Sun navigation in Target Satellite (T-Sat).
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