An operating development model spacecraft hydrogen maser
Abstract
A development model of a hydrogen maser for use in a spacecraft was designed, built, and is operating. The design incorporates a number of new features which allow the entire package of the advanced development model to fit into a volume 76 cm (30 inches) long and 40.6 cm (16 inches) in diameter. The features of the operating advanced development model maser enable a scale reduction to be made (the cavity length in the advanced development model is 40.6 cm), so that a complete hydrogen clock system including electronics and pumps can be constructed occupying a volume 50.8 cm (20 inches) long by 35.5 cm (14 inches) in diameter.
- Publication:
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32nd Annual Frequency Control Symposium
- Pub Date:
- 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978frco.symp..499S
- Keywords:
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- Gas Masers;
- Hydrogen;
- Maser Outputs;
- Spacecraft Instruments;
- Systems Engineering;
- Atomic Clocks;
- Cavity Resonators;
- Electronic Control;
- Radio Frequency Discharge;
- Lasers and Masers