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Attitude and Orientation Control System [AOCS]

Gyroscope Sensor for Measuring Angular Velocity Vector Projections 3

  • Purpose: Measurement of angular increments (rate integral) on sensitive axes of three measurement channels and transmission of that information to the object’s control system.
  • Year of release: 2011
  • Guaranteed service life (years): 10
  • Flight qualification of the product: Yes
  • Brief history of flight qualification: Produced and shipped to the Customer more than 20 ea. The instruments passed flight tests as a part of manned spacecraft.
ParameterValue
Measured angular velocity range±35°/с
Scale point of the least category of output code3,2"
Number of measurement channels3
Working time10000 h
Weight1,8 kg

Monoblock device includes electronic and optoelectronic modules and a block of sensitive elements containing three mutually orthogonal sensitive elements of a fiber-optic gyroscope.

Features:

  • non-sealed housing;
  • pulse and analogue outputs;
  • no temperature control system.