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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Commences Cutting-edge Scientific Measurements on Mars with Finnish Equipment

NASA’s Perseverance rover has now spent its first months on the surface of Mars. The testing and deployment phase is proceeding well, and after the first technology demonstration with the Ingenuity helicopter, the rover is commencing the continuous scientific measurements.

15 Apr 2021

Major Turkish grower benefits from the WET-2 Sensor’s multi-parameter soil measurements

SBR Agricultural Products (SBR) was founded in 1990 and operates in the Mersin Silifke region of Turkey. It specialises in the cultivation of fruit, especially berries – using cutting edge techniques.

From Delta-T Devices Ltd 9 Feb 2021

EPFL to Launch New Satellites by 2023

The EPFL Spacecraft Team has set an aspiring goal of launching a couple of satellites by 2023.

8 Feb 2021

New Semiconductor Schottky Contact Sensors Outshine Infrared Sensors

At Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Institute of Materials Science, a research team has developed new silicon and graphene Schottky contact-based infrared radiation sensors with higher efficiency than the infrared sensors available in the market.

21 Oct 2020

MIPT Researchers Develop a Prototype Detector of Solar Particles

Researchers from MIPT have developed a prototype detector of solar particles. The device is capable of picking up protons at kinetic energies between 10 and 100 megaelectronvolts, and electrons at 1-10 MeV.

14 Oct 2020

Space Technology Set to Boost National Water Quality Management

Satellites in space and a network of ground-based sensors could be used to monitor the quality of Australia’s inland waterways, reservoirs and coastal environments.

21 Sep 2020

Engineers Develop Device to Calibrate Sensors on Earth-Imaging Satellites

A prototype device may soon be used for calibrating sensors on satellites used for imaging the Earth.

5 Aug 2020

Danforth Center Researcher Wins Grant to Develop Integrated Smart Farm System

The National Institute for Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation has awarded Nadia Shakoor, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, a three-year, $1.4 million grant to develop FieldDock, an integrated smart farm system.

16 Jul 2020

Vaisala and FMI Technology Heads to Mars Onboard NASA’s Perseverance Rover

International collaboration takes Vaisala and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) to Mars onboard NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The rover is scheduled to launch on July 30, 2020. Vaisala’s sensor technology combined with FMI’s measurement instrumentation will be used to obtain accurate and reliable pressure and humidity data from the surface of the red planet.

From Vaisala Corporation 2 Jul 2020

A Next-Generation, Rugged Seismometer Could be Deployed to Measure Moonquakes

NASA hasn't measured moonquakes since Apollo astronauts deployed a handful of measuring stations at various locations on the lunar surface and discovered unexpectedly that Earth's only natural satellite was far from seismically inactive.

30 Apr 2020