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AAS 12-041ATTITUDE DETERMINATIONFOR A SMALL SATELLITE MISSIONMichael D’Angelo, * Richard Linares † and John L. Crassidis ‡This paper describes a path toward the development of theory for using a lownoise high frame rate camera as a star tracker for spacecraft attitude estimation. Thebenefit of using a low noise high frame rate camera is that star data can be sampled at afaster rate while allowing one to measure very dim stars, increasing the number of starsavailable for attitude estimation. The development of a noise model is discussed and analgorithm to process raw data is shown. An attitude estimation method is discussed andsimulated data is shown. A simulated star tracker for attitude estimation is shown andattitude estimation results are shown. [View Full Paper]* Undergraduate Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, StateUniversity of New York, Amherst, New York 14260-4400, U.S.A. Student Member AAS and AIAA.† Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, State Universityof New York, Amherst, New York 14260-4400, U.S.A. E-mail: linares2@buffalo.edu, Student Member AASand AIAA.‡ Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of NewYork, Amherst, New York 14260-4400, U.S.A. E-mail: johnc@buffalo.edu, Member AAS, Associate FellowAIAA.17