VIGO Photonics' Detectors Selected for NASA's Critical Environmental Monitoring Systems

VIGO Photonics shared today that its infrared detector products have been selected to monitor critical environmental systems on board NASA's Orion spacecraft.

Part of the Artemis program, Orion will serve as the exploration vehicle that will carry the crew to space, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel, and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities. Orion will launch on NASA's new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System.

VIGO Photonics shared that its infrared detector products have been selected to be used in NASA's spectrometer instrument, the Laser Air Monitor System (LAMS) crew habitable environment on board NASA's Orion spacecraft. VIGO's contribution to the project was providing qualified infrared detectors. LAMS was built by NASA to measure the concentration of CO², H²O, and O² in both the cabin and suit environments. VIGO conducted qualification tests for space environments, on standard detector products in their catalog to address the challenging launch requirements. 

This is another chapter in VIGO's support of space exploration that began with the EXOMARS mission and included deployment on the Mars Curiosity Rover.

We are excited and honored to support NASA on such a great project that will help to shape the future of space exploration to our moon and eventually Mars," said Adam Piotrowski, President and Chief Executive Officer of VIGO Photonics.

VIGO's detector products currently support the space, security, transportation, medical, manufacturing, and environmental monitoring industries around the world to expand condition-based maintenance practices. By partnering with OEMs and key stakeholders in target markets, VIGO is demonstrating how monitoring and measurement systems can be built without costly maintenance and calibration services.

About VIGO Photonics

VIGO Photonics is the leading European manufacturer of semiconducting materials and instruments for photonic and microelectronic, specialized in mid-infrared detectors, produced with the use of internally-developed technology. VIGO has a complete front-end and back-end production line for semiconductor high-capacity instruments - epitaxy of II-IV and III-V groups, the production of detector chips and lasers and their assembly and integration with electronics. VIGO Is headquartered in Ożarów Mazowiecki, Poland, and has offices in St. Petersburg, Florida and Taipei, Taiwan.