{"id":232190,"date":"2023-03-18T19:19:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T13:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=232190"},"modified":"2023-03-18T19:19:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T13:49:39","slug":"starberry-sense-indian-institute-of-astrophysics-researchers-develop-low-cost-star-sensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/starberry-sense-indian-institute-of-astrophysics-researchers-develop-low-cost-star-sensor\/","title":{"rendered":"Starberry-Sense: Indian Institute of Astrophysics researchers develop low-cost star sensor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cIndian Institute of Astrophysics researchers develop low-cost star sensor\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 17th March 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have developed a low-cost star sensor called Starberry-Sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is a Starberry-Sense?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starberry-Sense is a low-cost <\/span><b>star sensor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that can help small CubeSat class satellite missions find their orientation in space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The brain of the instrument is a single-board Linux computer called <\/span><b>Raspberry Pi,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is widely used among electronics hobby enthusiasts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on commercial\/off-the-shelf components, this star sensor costs less than 10% of those available in the market.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is a Star Sensor?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any satellite needs to know where it is pointed in space and the instrument used for this purpose is called a star sensor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The position of stars in the sky is fixed relative to each other and can be used as a stable reference frame to calculate the orientation of a satellite in orbit. This is done by correctly identifying the stars in the sky towards which the star sensor is pointed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, the star sensor is essentially a celestial compass.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndian Institute of Astrophysics researchers develop low-cost star sensor\u201d published in The Hindu on 17th March 2023 What is the News? Researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have developed a low-cost star sensor called Starberry-Sense. What is a Starberry-Sense? Starberry-Sense is a low-cost star sensor&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/starberry-sense-indian-institute-of-astrophysics-researchers-develop-low-cost-star-sensor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starberry-Sense: Indian Institute of Astrophysics researchers develop low-cost star sensor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-232190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}