Venus Express: Sofradir inside!For full details, please visit the ESA website: http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=64 "9 November 2005 ESA PR 50-2005. The European spacecraft Venus Express has been successfully placed into a trajectory that will take it on its journey from Earth towards its destination of the planet Venus, which it will reach next April. The European spacecraft will be the first orbiter to probe the planet's surface while exploiting the 'visibility windows' recently discovered in the infrared waveband" *************************************************** A Sofradir IR detector was supplied to ESA for this Venus Express mission Sofradir is the European leader for sophisticated IR detector for space applications. *Sofradir is the supplier of the French military observation satellite (HELIOS, in orbit since December 2004) Sofradir supply a 1000x256 SWIR detector for hyperspectral application (former ESA development contract) Felix Zutterman (felix.zutterman@sofradir.com) |
