Towards using LED arrays for relative alignment of cube satellite clusters

Herrnsdorf, Johannes and Griffiths, Alexander D. and Lowe, Christopher and Macdonald, Malcolm and Strain, Michael J. and Dawson, Martin D. (2019) Towards using LED arrays for relative alignment of cube satellite clusters. In: IEEE Photonics Conference 2019, 2019-09-29 - 2019-10-03. (https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCon.2019.8908343)

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Abstract

A structured illumination system based on microscale light-emitting diode arrays provides a low size, mass and power approach to monitor the relative angular alignment of nano-satellites operating in cluster configuration.