Sun Sensors
===========

Tier Legend
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   * - Tier
     - Meaning
   * - ⚪
     - Representative or simplified Sun-sensor layout/defaults.
   * - 🔵
     - Hardware identity and layout are traceable; error defaults may be representative or assumed.
   * - 🟣
     - Blue-tier information plus source-backed measurement noise or accuracy defaults.
   * - 🟡
     - Purple-tier information plus source-backed bias, bias-bound, or calibration defaults.

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   * - Tier
     - Model
     - Factory
     - Documentation
     - Source
     - Missions
     - Notes
   * - 🔵
     - BRITE dedicated Sun sensors
     - ``create_gnb_sun_sensors``
     - :doc:`Factory <../ADCS.satellite_factory.sensors.create_cubesat_sunpair>`
     - `GNB report <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349758612_ADCS_Preliminary_Design_For_GNB>`__
     - BRITE-Austria
     - Preliminary design layout; approximate noise floor.
   * - ⚪
     - Clyde Space 3U solar-array SunPair proxy
     - ``create_Clydespace_3U_array``
     - :doc:`Factory <../ADCS.satellite_factory.sensors.create_cubesat_sunpair>`
     - 
     - BeaverCube 1, BeaverCube 2
     - Axis + efficiency.
   * - 🔵
     - LightSail 2 Elmos Sun sensors
     - ``create_elmos_sun_sensors``
     - :doc:`Factory <../ADCS.satellite_factory.sensors.create_cubesat_sunpair>`
     - `doi:10.3390/aerospace10070579 <https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/10/7/579>`__
     - LightSail 2
     - 5 coarse sensors; approximate noise floor.
   * - 🟡
     - Hamamatsu S3931 Sun sensors
     - ``create_hamamatsu_s3931_sun_sensors``
     - :doc:`Factory <../ADCS.satellite_factory.sensors.create_cubesat_sunpair>`
     - `ASCE Library <https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29AS.1943-5525.0000504>`__
     - ESTCube-1
     - ESTCube bias/noise defaults.
   * - 🟣
     - Solar MEMS NANO-ISS60 Sun sensors
     - ``create_nano_iss60_sun_sensors``
     - :doc:`Factory <../ADCS.satellite_factory.sensors.create_cubesat_sunpair>`
     - `mediaTUM <https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/doc/1483411/document.pdf>`__
     - MOVE-II
     - MOVE-II noise default.
   * - 🟣
     - OSRAM SFH2430 Sun sensors
     - ``create_osram_sfh2430_sun_sensors``
     - :doc:`Factory <../ADCS.satellite_factory.sensors.create_cubesat_sunpair>`
     - `Deep Blue <https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/140645/1.g000175.pdf?sequence=1>`__
     - RAX-1, RAX-2
     - RAX layout + noise default.