MEMS gyroscope for attitude propagation and determination for nanosatellites

Abstract

Cubesat is a nano-satellite system standard, where a nano-satellite has structure, power, telemetry, payload among other subsystems, however, it fits up to 1.3 kilograms and 10cm×10cm×10cm modules [1]. Nano-satellites present flexibility in design; in recent years there are several proposals on how to implement the subsystems. The resolution continued to improve, which in turn lead to the need for higher accuracy pointing. They push the bounds of small size and low cost developed to provide cheap access to space and used primarily by universities, these satellites are measured in the tens of centimeters, weigh between one and ten kilograms, and usually cost in the tens of thousands of dollars.