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OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter

Monday, September 12th, 2016

Teledyne Optech Lidar Launched in OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission

September 12, 2016 — Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) was launched successfully from Cape Canaveral, USA on Thursday, September 8. OLA was designed by scientists and engineers from Teledyne Optech and built by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA). It had been installed and tested aboard the OSIRIS-REx (Origins-Spectral