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KU Leuven University

BE
academic
Leuven, Belgium
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The KU Leuven star tracker from CubeSat Pointing has a baffle sun rejection angle of 40 degrees, a lost-in-space availability of greater than 99% of the night sky, requires 3.3 V interface supply, consumes nominally less than 1 W, and measures 95 x 50 x 0.045 m.

Mentioned as: KU Leuven UniversityOrg RelationshipDec 26, 2023Top Satellite Star Trackers in 2023

ISISPACE was subcontractor responsible for the design and delivery of SIMBA’s platform integrating the miniaturized radiometer built by RMIB and the ADCS subsystem developed by KU Leuven.

Mentioned as: KU LeuvenTechnical ProductSep 3, 2020Successful ISILAUNCH26 campaign on Vega VV16 flight

ISISPACE was subcontracted to design and deliver SIMBA’s platform integrating the miniaturized radiometer built by the Royal Meteorological Institute Belgium and the ADCS subsystem developed by KU Leuven.

Mentioned as: KU LeuvenTechnical ProductSep 3, 2020Successful ISILAUNCH26 campaign on Vega VV16 flight

Francisca Paiva was a master's student at KU Leuven and an intern at the European Space Agency during the research.

Mentioned as: ku leuvenNarrative GeneralLunar spacecraft exhaust could obscure clues to origins of life