The BOKZ family instruments have been designed for precise determination of spacecraft triaxial attitude control parameters in real time based on images of the arbitrary starry sky segments. |
The BOKZ family instrument is a monoblock with the digital TV camera based on a CCD-array, a signal processor based computer and a secondary power supply unit. |
Since 1999 twenty one star instruments of the BOKZ family have been launched to the nearterrestrial orbits onboard the International Space Station and ten Russian spacecraft of various types. |
The development of three more modifications – BOKZ-л, BOKZ-л24 Х BOKZ-2л is completed. The next generation trackers BOKZ-лF and BOKZ-3 are being developed. |
According to the contracts concluded it is planned to manufacture about forty BOKZ family instruments of various modifications before the end of 2010. |
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Test results and prospects |