Sensors for Space Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last few decades, space missions have pushed the limits to achieve scientific objectives by expanding the frontier of knowledge and developing emerging technologies. These cutting-edge advances allow the designing of instrumentation for ultra-stable high-precision measurements that enhance the disciplines beyond their previous states-of-art. The achievement of these goals represents the establishment of new strategies for carrying out challenging space measurements that are grounded in the standard constraints of spacecraft-borne sensors, such as mass, power, and the effects of the harsh space environment.

This Special Issue, which includes regular research articles and review articles, aims to disseminate recent advances in the design and development of  sensors and dedicated instrumentation for space. In addition, we invite authors to contribute on topics that encompass the numerous strategies for improving the characteristics, reliability, technological maturity, or in-flight heritage of space hardware at the component, subystem, or system level. The range of space applications includes, but is not restricted to, the following areas:

• In-orbit demostration/in-orbit validation experiments;
• Earth observation;
• Solar system exploration;
• Exoplanets;
• Space-borne fundamental physics experiments;
• Astrophysics, astronomy and cosmology;
• Space-based gravitational wave detectors;
• Nanosatellites.

Dr. Ignacio Mateos
Guest Editor

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