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OAS platform Detail for SG004, meta_version: 1. Current meta_version is: 6
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platforms_id: 12040
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Name: SG004
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Comments: ICES request for the vessel SG004 from UNITED STATES. (Request sent to Don Collins and Alexandra Grodsky on 17 September 2013)

Name : SG004
Flag : UNITED STATES - US (ISO Country Code)
Platform Class : 25 Autonomous underwater vehicle
Current Length : 1.8 m
Built : unknown
Notes : Underwater Seaglider glider (number 004) owned by the Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington

Additional information:

Size: Body 1.8 m, 30 cm diameter
Wing span 1m
Antenna mast length 1 m

Weight: 52 kg (dry)

Maximum Depth: 1000 m

Maximum Range/Duration: 4600 km (650 dives to 1km depth)

Batteries: Lithium primaries, 24V and 10 V packs, 10 MJ

Typical Speed: 25 cm/s

Glide Angle: 16-45 degrees

Mechanical Features: Isopyonal hull
No external moving parts
Low drag, flooded fiberglass fairing

RF Data Telemetry: Iridium satellite data telemetry

Guidance and Control: Control and system commands transmitted on
any dive. Dead reckoning between GPS fixes
using pitch, roll, heading. Kalaman filter
prediction for mean and oscillatory currents.
Bathymetry map for surface to near-bottom
dives.

Owned and operated:
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
1013 NE 40th Street
Box 355640
Seattle, WA 98105-6698
Voice: 206-543-1300
Fax: 206-543-6785
Email: webadmin@apl.washington.edu

http://www.apl.washington.edu/projects/seaglider/specifications.html

(Request sent to Don Collins and Alexandra Grodsky on 17 September 2013)
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Keydate: 2013-09-17 12:57:48+00
Editdate: 2013-09-17 13:27:04+00