Space Instruments has developed sensor and software systems and provided long term support to a long list of household names in technology:

U.S. Government agencies:

- U.S.D.A. Forest Service
- NASA
- DARPA (Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency)
- U.S. Air Force

Brazilian Federal Agencies:

- IBAMA (Department of Interior/National Park Service)
- INPE (National Institute for Space Research)
- AEB (Brazilian Space Agency)
- Brazilian Federal Police

U.S. Aerospace Industry

- Raytheon (formerly Hughes Aircraft Company)
- Rockwell International
- Northrup Grumman Space Technology (formerly TRW)
- JPL
- SAIC
- Hamilton Sundstrand (formerly Orbital Sciences)

European Aerospace Industry

- Dornier System
- MATRA

Design
Expertise

Space Instruments designs and produces its existing sensor product line and has subcontracted to technology leaders on many projects over the years.

Range of products and services

Our work covers a range of high technology services from preproposal activities through design, hardware fabrication, testing, and operational phases of sensor programs.

Sensors

Design concepts for visible, infrared and microwave sensors
Sensor design tradeoffs with regard to sensitivity, detectors, data rates, optics, antennas, data handling, etc.
Detailed design of inflight calibration systems
Spacecraft and STS interface specifications

Mission Planning

Mission planning for experimental and operational systems
Detailed experiment generation
Sensor mode control and command logic

Data Processing

Onboard and ground-based sensor data processing architecture
Detailed algorithms for signal processing

Program Experience

Space Instruments' staff members have performed critical program tasks in the design, fabrication, testing, and flight portions of a variety of successful space sensor projects, including:

Remote Sensing

Multispectral scanning, pushbroom, and staring radiometers for crop surveys, geology, ocean monitoring, and urban planning
Synthetic aperture radars for soil moisture determination, geology, ocean monitoring, and water resources planning
Microwave scatterometers for wind velocity measurements

Surveillance

Scanning IR search / track sensors
Mosaic IRCCD sensors for background suppression and target streak detection
Laser and fiber optics systems
Real time on board data processors for background discrimination, target acquisition, target tracking, and noise suppression

Atmospheric Sciences

Scanning and staring earth radiation budget sensors for climatology
IR temperature and humidity sounders for meteorology
Microwave passive radiometers for meteorology

Astronomy

Cryogenic LWIR background mapping sensors for infrared celestial surveys
Visible imaging for deep space interplanetary probes