• Sofradir

    Chatenay Malabry 92290

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    43-47 Rue Camille Pelletan
    Chatenay Malabry 92290
    France
    http://www.sofradir.com
    33-1-46-61-38-68
    33-1-46-61-58-84

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    Supplies a range of cooled and uncooled IR detectors used for space observation missions and battlefield equipment.

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    The Copernicus Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission, or CO2M for short, is one of Europe’s new high-priority satellite missions and will be the first to measure how much carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere specifically through human activity.
    The SWIR detector will enable coverage of a high number of wavelengths of interest, as well as a large swath, for the major Earth observation satellite mission.
    (Credit: The European Space Agency)
    The Copernicus Land Surface Temperature Monitoring (LSTM) mission will carry a high spatial-temporal resolution thermal infrared sensor to provide observations of land-surface temperature.
    The mission’s prime contractor, Airbus Defence & Space, will integrate Lynred’s shortwave-infrared (SWIR) detector into the satellite’s imager, whose land-surface temperature ...
    (Image credit: Andrew Lloyd & Associates)
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    Lynred is the new identity under which its 1,000 staff will provide the widest range of advanced IR technologies.
    FIGURE 1. A VGA 15 μm pixel pitch mid-wave infrared (MWIR) detector with digital interface is optimized for size, weight, and power (SWaP), weighing in at 0.40 kg with a cool-down time of 3 min and 20 s.
    Advances in infrared imaging offer new capabilities and applications for defense, security, research, biomedicine, and manufacturing. Particularly, pixel pitch and packaging improvement...
    (Courtesy of Sofradir)
    A Sofradir VEGA QWIP-based FPA is used for thermal imaging of military vehicles (top left, IR image from QWIP camera; top right, visible image of vehicle). The FPA, housed in its integrated detector dewar assembly, is seen at lower right; the Thales camera into which the assembly is integrated is see at lower left.
    With their low cost and high uptime, quantum-well infrared detector focal-plane arrays compete well with mercury cadmium telluride for some uses in the long-wave infrared.
    Image courtesy of JAXA
    The Hayabusa-2 space probe nears the asteroid 1999 JU3 in this artist's drawing.
    A hyperspectral detector made by Sofradir (Palaiseau, France) is part of the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) space mission Hayabusa-2, which was successfully launched on December...

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    The L-HOT midwave-infrared integrated detector cooler operates at 150 K (-123°C), 60 K higher than standard mercury cadmium telluride IR detectors in the 3 to 5 μm waveband, and...
    Paris, France--Advanced IR detectors developer Sofradir has been awarded a multi-million Euro contract to manufacture IR detectors for the engineering and flight model phases ...
    Sofradir (Chatenay-Malabry, France) said today it has agreed with Galileo Avionica (Italy), a worldwide supplier of space equipment, to supply it with Saturn, Sofradir's 1000x256...
    Ranked #2 worldwide in infrared (IR) detectors, Sofradir agrees acquisition will accelerate its development in the North American market.
    Veurey-Voroize, France--Sofradir has announced that General Electric will become a minority shareholder in Ulis, manufacturer of uncooled infrared detectors.