Ashima Research - Instrumentation
Development of new spacecraft instrumentation
The development of new instrumentation for the study of planetary atmospheres from spacecraft was a major activity within the group and we hope to return to it in the future (our current hardware development efforts have a more commercial focus). Our interest is in the development of new concepts and the design of instrument prototypes. Ashima Research possesses a planetary environment chamber that can be used to test instrumentation in Mars-like (and hopefully at some point, Titan-like) conditions. Our instrumentation efforts have so far focused on sensing of wind, temperature, and composition from acoustic measurements, thermal and microwave sounding of atmospheres from the surface, and control systems for multi-sensor instruments.
