Monday, July 2, 2018

Teledyne Launches Earth Imaging Sensor To ISS

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies Incorporated said today that it has successfully launched an earth imaging sensor to the International Space Station (ISS), on last week's SpaceX Falcon 9 delivery run to the ISS. According to Teledyne, its DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) was designed and built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and will be installed and tested on Teledyne Brown Engineering's Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) aboard the space station. The new hyperspectral sensor system records imaging data on earth using 235 closely arranged wavelength channels across the visible to near-infrared spectra. Teledyne said the data gathered by its sensors will be used for a variety of efforts in agriculture, biodiversity, geology, water ecosystems and to detect natural or man-made changes to the Earth's surface.