Space Shuttle IMU — Serial Number 001

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   jurvetson

   Apr 13, 2021 at 12:16 am

   Each electronics module is painted with SER-001 in whiteLabel on the Cylinder is Platform & Electrical Assembly Serial Number ADH #1
   Side tag reads: INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT (IMU0 ORBITER Serial Number 0001Some vintage ads from 1970Ken Shiriff did a teardown of the AP-101 computer that it fed.

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   thepretenda

   Apr 13, 2021 at 2:51 am

   WOW. Heavy duty reliability!!

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   sbove

   Apr 13, 2021 at 1:33 pm

   "Don’t gamble on spinning gyroscopes." 😉 These are amazing, and…huge & complex, now entirely replaced by hyper-stable, small, and accurate ring laser gyros (in aircraft and I’d assume, space craft) => en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_laser_gyroscope,
   aerospace.honeywell.com/en/learn/products/sensors/gg1320a…

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   precious amount

   Apr 13, 2021 at 11:58 pm

   It’s always fun to see vintage hardware like this and to get some context from you. Thank you for sharing these images. I get a charge out of the connectors and how everything is labelled. Part of any program is learning all of the three-letter names for parts of a system. It sounds like you may know enough of them to jump in to several space programs.

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   jurvetson

   Apr 22, 2021 at 4:27 am

   Thanks! Here is what the IMU ball inside looks like:

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