Ariane 5 booster ?
Originally Posted by
jimbeetle
So, as this has not yet been confirmed as part of AF 447 I have to go with HazelNuts' suggestion and for now assume it might be a part of an Ariane (there just happened to be a launch that included two boosters on July 1st).
HazelNuts & ThermalSniffer may be right, these model of IMU could be a part of the Ariane 5 boosters upper stage:
Centrales inertielles - Sensorex - Capteur de déplacement, enregistreur de choc, électronique, micro électronique, conditionneur de signal, sécurité intrinsèque, inclinomètre, accéléromètre, gyromètre Jeff
Correction: it seems that there are no IMU in the Ariane boosters, only in the equipment bay of the main stage that goes to orbit with the payload.
Last edited by Hyperveloce; 17th July 2009 at 19:59.