Pointing and tracking sensors encompass devices that determine and maintain the precise angular orientation and line-of-sight direction of airborne platforms, payloads, and antenna systems, covering technologies such as star trackers, sun sensors, horizon sensors, gyroscopic rate sensors, and inertial measurement units (IMUs), together with associated gimbal-mounted electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) detector assemblies used in stabilised targeting and surveillance applications.
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