1. Sensonor Supplies IMUs for NASA RAVEN and Near Earth Orbit SCOUT: Sensonor first began supplying its standard Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and Gyroscope Modules for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) space applications in 2012, beginning with the launch of the NASA sponsored AeroCube-4 satellite. Today, the company is proud to announce that Sensonor is a supplier for NASA's current and future Low- and Near Earth Orbit space applications. Sensonor's STIM300 and STIM210 iner-tial products are now a standard part in many spacecraft's similar to the AeroCube-4. Current NASA projects using STIM inertial systems include the RAVEN technology demonstration and Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) SCOUT. RAVEN, which launches to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2016, will test key elements of an autonomous relative navigation system. Its technologies may one day help future robotic spacecraft autonomously and seamlessly rendezvous with other objects in motion, such as a satellite in need of fuel, or a tumbling asteroid. The NEA SCOUT is a robotic reconnaissance mission that will be deployed to fly by and return data from an asteroid representative of NEAs.
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