DMSP satellite operated in first-ever gyroless control
Submit on Friday, July 20th, 2007 04:05
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 15 (DMSP-F15), launched in December 1999, successfully operated without navigation gyros for 24 hours demonstrating a new promising capability that can extend portions of the DMSP mission even when critical gyro data is not available.
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