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Features of Designing a Star Catalog for Orientation Sensors of Space Vehicles

Avanesov, G. A.; Elyashev, Ya. D.

A brief history of the creation of star orientation sensors at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS) and star catalogs for them is presented. An experiment carried out in the early 1970s on synchronous photography of stars and the Earth's surface from the manned stations Salyut-2 and -3 is described. The difficu…