The invention discloses an integrated navigation system and method based on an SINS and a star sensor. The integrated navigation system comprises the SINS, the star sensor and a filter, wherein the SINS is used for detecting the attitude information of a carrier, and amending the attitude information according to the optimum estimate of a state error term; the star sensor is used for acquiring the longitude and latitude, in a star sensor coordinate system, of an imaged fixed star, the direction unit vector, in a geocentric inertial coordinate system, of a reference fixed star matched with the imaged fixed star, and the longitude and latitude, in the star sensor coordinate system, of the reference fixed star; when the number of fixed stars observed by the star sensor is one or two, the filter is used for acquiring the optimum estimate of the state error term of the SINS according to an observation equation, wherein the observation equation is established by taking a longitude and latitude difference as a state quantity and by taking the pre-established error equation of the SINS as a state equation, and the longitude and latitude difference is composed of the longitude difference and latitude difference, in the star sensor coordinate system, between the reference fixed star and the imaged fixed star. According to the invention, the application range of the integrated navigation system can be widened.