AOCS/GNC Sensors
Airbus Defence and Space
A range of Airbus attitude and orbit control sensors comprising Astrix fibre-optic gyroscopes, Jena-Optronik star sensors, and BASS bi-axis sun sensors for satellite and spacecraft guidance, navigation and control.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Design life
- 15 years
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Astrix bias stability
- as low as 0.0005°/h
- Astrix mission lifetime
- exceeding 15 years
- Bass field of view
- ±90°
- Bass mass
- low mass
- Bass thermal resistance
- high thermal resistance
- Bass applications
- LEO, GEO, and interplanetary missions
- Star sensors applications
- Earth observation to deep space exploration
About
Airbus offers a comprehensive range of sensors designed to ensure precision, reliability, and performance across diverse space missions for attitude and orbit control (AOCS) and guidance, navigation and control (GNC) applications. The range includes the Astrix series of fibre-optic gyroscopes (FOG), which provide unmatched inertial measurement accuracy, with bias stability as low as 0.0005°/h and mission lifetimes exceeding 15 years. Jena-Optronik star sensors, also part of the range, provide precise attitude control for applications spanning Earth observation to deep space exploration, ensuring robust performance under harsh space conditions. Complementing these, the BASS (Bi-Axis Sun Sensors) deliver dependable sun detection with a ±90° field of view, low mass, and high thermal resistance, making them suitable for LEO, GEO, and interplanetary missions. Datasheets are available for individual Astrix variants (Astrix NS, Astrix 200, Astrix 120, Astrix 1090) and BASS.
Documentation
- Datasheet_SpE_Astrix_NS_2023.pdf PDF source: airbus.web.factory.eu.airbus.com ↗
- Datasheet_SpE_ASTRIX200_2022.pdf PDF source: airbus.web.factory.eu.airbus.com ↗
- Datasheet_SpE_ASTRIX120_2022.pdf PDF source: airbus.web.factory.eu.airbus.com ↗
- Datasheet_SpE_ASTRIX1090_2022.pdf PDF source: airbus.web.factory.eu.airbus.com ↗
- Datasheet_SpE_BASS_2022.pdf PDF source: airbus.web.factory.eu.airbus.com ↗
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