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As described in Sect. 1.4, the star sensor method usually has two working modes, namely the initial attitude establishment mode and the tracking mode. In the initial attitude establishment mode, star sensor identifies and establishes initial attitude by using the full-sky star image. Once the initial attitude of a spacecraft is established successfully, star sensor enters into the tracking mode. In normal conditions, star sensor works in the tracking mode most of the time, which means that the tracking mode is the principle operational mode of star sensor.
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Zhang, G. (2017). Rapid Star Tracking by Using Star Spot Matching Between Adjacent Frames. In: Star Identification. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53783-1_6
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