This stabilization pointing and tracking isolation platform is of small size, light weight, low power, fast steering, and reduced cost in design and production. It finds wide applications in spaceborne vehicles for large telescope stabilization control, optical communications, antenna pointing, telescope stabilization, laser pointing and control, and vehicle guidance. Although the proposed unit is aimed at pointing of a communication laser beam, its properties of small size, low cost, light weight and broad bandwidth disturbance rejection allows its utilization in many commercial applications including pointing control, motion and vibration isolation. Specific examples include: target designation, stabilization control, optical pointing, laser and telescope pointing control. Also, imaging, optical communications, and vehicle control and guidance benefit from our system.
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