Northrop Grumman's Scalable SIRU tapped for space mission
Woodland Hills, Calif. (UPI) Aug 12, 2013 - Northrop Grumman's space inertial reference system is to be used on NASA's Solar Probe Plus mission to examine the atmosphere of the Sun. The Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit, or Scalable SIRU, provides rotation rate data for stabilization, pointing and attitude control of satellites and space vehicles. "Our Scalable SIRU was competitively selected for the Solar Probe Plus ... more

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