Teledyne e2v completes signing of detector supply contract for Copernicus Sentinel satellites

摘要

Teledyne e2v, a part of the Teledyne Imaging Group, will supply image sensors and detectors to the recently announced grouped proposal of the European Space Agency's (ESA) industrial policy committee to place six Copernicus Sentinel satellite missions in space. As the sensor partner for Thales Alenia Space, the UK team will develop, manufacture and supply variants of their Capella CMOS visible image sensor from Chelmsford. These new Teledyne e2v CMOS image sensors, designed for space applications, feature a large area resolution of 2048 x 2048, 10um pixels, are radiation tolerant, operating in the UV-NIR wavelengths. The CO2I and NO2 sensors are part of a four sensor CO2M instrument. The Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Monitoring (CO2M) mission will carry a near infrared (NIR) and shortwave-infrared (SWIR) spectrometer to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by human activity.