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ASR worked on the mechanical design of a methanol far infrared laser local oscillator (LLO) module for the Earth Observing System (EOS) portion of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE) program.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology awarded the development of the LLO module to Coherent-DEOS. As subcontractor to DEOS, ASR was responsible for the mechanical engineering aspect of the program, which included design, stress and thermal analysis and drafting.
The EOS portion of NASA's MTPE program includes space instrumentation directed toward understanding the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere from space. The methanol LLO is part of the Microwave Limb Sounder portion of the EOS Aura satellite program which is responsible for acquiring OH atmospheric data, as well as other data, by looking through the atmosphere "limb" from space. Understanding the role of the OH molecule in the Earth's atmospheric chemistry is important in predicting future trends in the ozone layer. |
