Lessons Learned From the Clementine Mission


3
Mission Implementation


TABLE 3.2 Clementine's Advanced Technology Components, Their Heritage, and Examples of Future Applications
Item Heritage Flown Before? Examples of
Subsequent Uses		 Examples of Future Uses
Lightweight reaction wheel LOSAT-Xa (with different configuration) Yes (no information) — GFO
R-3000, 32-bit
RISC Computer		 Brilliant Eyes and
Brilliant Pebbles
flight test programs		 No MSTI-3 Lewis, Clark
1750A Computer USAF spacecraft Yes: TAOS Milstar, NEAR, MGS IUS, MISR
GaAs/Ge Solar Arrays DOD applications
MSTI-1		 Yes: classified
program		 Mars Pathfinder, Soujourner,
TRACE, STRV-1B		 Iridium, TRMM, GFO
Solid State Data Recorder Classified
applications		 Yes (no information) NEAR, MGS Cassini, Lewis, Clark,
ACE, SBIR
Frangibolt Release
Mechanism		 NRL (general
applications)		 No TOMS, Mars Pathfinder STRV-2, SAPPHIRE,
Lewis, Clark
Single Pressure
Vessel Battery		 Communications
satellite industry		 No MGS Iridium, Lewis, Clark
Inertial Measurement Unit THAAD, LEAP No Derivative of instrument
on missiles flight test
program		 Deep Space 1, LMLV,
DOD applications including
Apache helicopter
Data-compression Chipsa CNES program— — Cassini
Star TrackerBrilliant Pebbles
flight test program		 Yes: early version
on BMDO suborbital flights		 — Bitsy, Mars Surveyor 1998
Orbiter and Lander
Ultraviolet/Visible Imager Brilliant Pebbles
flight test program		 Yes: early version
on BMDO suborbital flights		 — —
High-Resolution
Imager/Lidar Receiver		 Brilliant Pebbles
flight test program		 Yes: early version on
BMDO suborbital flights		 — —
Laser Transmitter Brilliant Pebbles
flight test program		 No — —
Near-Infrared Imager Space surveillance
applications		 No — —
Long-wave Infrared Imager No No — —

NOTE: Abbreviations and acronyms are defined in the glossary.

aInformation on the data-compression chips could not be confirmed, but the entries are consistent with information presented by Jacques Blamont (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) at the July 1994 Clementine Engineering and Technology Workshop.

SOURCE: Information and choice of entries based on material initially supplied by Paul Regeon, Clementine program manager at the Naval Research Laboratory, and later updated with additional material supplied by Stewart Nozette and David Barnhart of the Clementine II team at the U.S. Air Force's Phillips Laboratory. Individual entries were confirmed and updated, whenever possible, by members of the relevant mission teams or the manufacturer of individual components.


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