Draper Prepares To Flight Test Low-Mass, Low Power Star Tracker

A NASA-funded low-mass, low-power star tracker developed by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory is finally closing in on a flight test. If all goes as planned, the 2.9-kg. Inertial Stellar Compass (ISC)--based on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) gyroscope technology also developed at Draper-...

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