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Odyssey mission status
rlorenz
post Nov 20 2012, 05:01 AM
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Odyssey uses ring laser gyros. From http://research.nianet.org/~rtolson/docume..._MRO_AB_JSR.pdf

Ah silly me. I made the mistake of looking in Tolson's paper on Odyssey to find out about Odyssey's IMU.... of course, the info is in a paper on MRO.....

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Ring laser gyro lifetime limits are typically due to gas impurity buildups in the RLG cavity.

Interesting !
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Doug M.
post Mar 13 2013, 01:45 PM
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Noted in passing: the 11th anniversary of Odyssey's active mission passed a few weeks ago in February, and the 12th (!) anniversary of its launch is a couple of weeks from now, on April 7.

We don't know how much longer it can last, but it's certainly had a good run.


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