HIPPARCOS

The Space Industry is now facing the rise of SmallSats, tiny low-cost fast-developing spacecrafts. This leads to a demand for miniaturized attitude determination and control systems (ADCS), accurate, reliable, robust and low cost. HIPPARCOS’s ADCS, based on 40-years experience of the Team, intend to provide the best answer to such a demand: their competitive advantages stem in the intelligence of the algorithms for attitude determination through a smart multicamera architecture, in the intelligent data fusion from multiple sensors and in sophisticated in-orbit recalibration procedures. HIPPARCOS has a wide portfolio of ADCS products: • ARGO 1.0 Star Tracker is a stand-alone version, a fully autonomous plug&play solution, featuring high reliability and robustness • ARGO 2.0 Star Tracker is a lighter and smaller architecture specifically conceived for the Constellation market, with furtherly reduced size, weight and power • Reaction wheels and Integrated ADCS: this product lines will add the feature of Attitude Control to ARGO Star Trackers, thus widening the company’s portfolio