SRI International researchers developed Active Pixel CMOS detectors for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR). This is the only imaging instrument aboard the Parker Solar Probe.
Space
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Cooperative space robotics for future space missions
Enabling governments and commercial space operators to perform space-based device maintenance, safely and remotely.
Atmospheric research and radar
Advanced radar facilities help keep the U.S. safe during the Cold War.
Radar that penetrates ground and foliage
Innovative radar helps find unexploded ordnance and other concealed items.
Dish radio antenna
We invented satellite slang and spacecraft speak.
Electrostatic discharge rods
Innovative rods help protect aircraft from potentially dangerous levels of static electricity.
TIROS 1 weather satellite
The world’s first space-based meteorology satellite.
Venus night-side airglow
First observation provides new insight into Earth’s closest neighbor.
Advanced modular incoherent scatter radar
Our AMISR ushered in relocatable radar to read atmospheric events, rain, sleet or tsunami.