Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Tests of Star Tracker Algorithms

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</svg>  (arcsec/s)</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Boresight stars</td><td align="center">190</td><td align="center">10800 (1-deg off-boresight angle)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Mid-range off-boresight stars</td><td align="center">188</td><td align="center">1550</td></tr><tr><td align="left">FOV-border-off-boresight stars</td><td align="center">180</td><td align="center">765</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Minimum angular rates for continuous motion simulation (i.e., 1-LCD pixel simulated star position change between subsequent sensor acquisitions).

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Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Tests of Star Tracker Algorithms

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