ESA has granted a consortium of Galileo Avionica, BAE Systems, Thales Alenia Space, and CMOSIS the contract for the design and prototyping of a medium-high accuracy digital sun sensor for satellite attitude determination.
The core of this fully-autonomous SpaceWire-equipped navigation device will be a radiation-hardened ultra-low-power system-on-chip image sensor to be developed by CMOSIS.
This project forms the continuation of the groundbreaking and proven work in the field of CMOS APS-based spacecraft attitude and orbit control sensors that our team started as early as 1997.