Star Trackers

Tier Legend

Tier

Meaning

Representative or generic star-tracker layout/defaults.

🔵

Hardware identity, boresight/layout, field of view, or exclusion geometry is traceable; error defaults may be approximate.

🟣

Blue-tier information plus source-backed or vendor-style attitude-noise defaults.

🟡

Purple-tier information plus source-backed bias or calibration defaults.

Tier

Model

Factory

Documentation

Source

Missions

Notes

🔵

AeroAstro MST

create_aeroastro_mst

Factory

TU Graz

BRITE-Austria

Telescope-aligned; approximate noise floor.

BCT Nano Star Tracker

create_bct_nst

Factory

Boresight, FOV, exclusion, noise.

Terma T1 Star Tracker

create_terma_t1

Factory

Boresight, FOV, exclusion, noise.

Generic vector star tracker

create_generic_star_tracker

Factory

Configurable vector tracker.

BCT Nano Star Tracker, quaternion output

create_bct_nst_quaternion

Factory

Quaternion output preset.

Generic quaternion star tracker

create_generic_star_tracker_quaternion

Factory

Configurable quaternion tracker.