{"id":6343,"date":"2023-03-17T12:18:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T06:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6343"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:46:00","slug":"starberry-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/starberry-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Starberry-Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Starberry-Sense<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The star sensor Starberry-Sense can help <strong>small CubeSat class satellite missions<\/strong> find their orientation in space.<\/li>\n<li>Any satellite needs to know where it is pointed in space, and the instrument used for this purpose is called a star sensor.<\/li>\n<li>The position of stars in the sky is fixed relative to each other and can be used as a <strong>stable reference frame<\/strong> to calculate the <strong>orientation of a satellite in orbit.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features of<\/strong> <strong>Starberry-Sense<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The brain of the instrument is a <strong>single-board Linux computer called Raspberry Pi<\/strong>, which is widely used among electronics hobby enthusiasts.<\/li>\n<li>Based on commercial\/off-the-shelf components, this star <strong>sensor costs less than 10% of those available in the market.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is ready for launch on <strong>the PS4-Orbital Platform by ISRO<\/strong> and can be used for <strong>CubeSats <\/strong>and other <strong>small satellite missions<\/strong> in the future.<\/li>\n<li>The star sensor has successfully undergone the <strong>vibration and thermal vacuum<\/strong> test that qualifies it for a space launch and operations, and these tests were conducted in-house at the environmental test facility located at the CREST Campus of IIA in Hosakote.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are CubeSats?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>CubeSats are a class <strong>of research spacecraft<\/strong> called nanosatellites.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>CubeSats are built to standard dimensions (Units or \u201cU\u201d) of 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm.<\/li>\n<li>They typically <strong>weigh less than 1.33 kg<\/strong> (3 lbs) per U.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an orbit?<\/h3>\n<p>An orbit is a regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one. An object in an orbit is called a satellite. A satellite can be natural, like Earth or the moon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/indian-institute-of-astrophysics-researchers-develop-low-cost-star-sensor\/article66631525.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Institute of Astrophysics researchers develop low-cost star sensor<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star sensor Starberry-Sense can help CubeSat class satellite missions find their orientation in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}