Sensors get set to come in from the cold

摘要

Clyde Space and Teledyne e2v are working on a project to create ultra-sensitive 'cold atoms' in space, an advance with benefits that could include improved environmental monitoring. Laboratory experiments have shown cold atoms can be used as ultra-sensitive sensors capable of mapping tiny changes in the strength of gravity across the Earth's surface. That will now be replicated in space through the Clyde Space-Teledyne e2v partnership with the Cold Atom Space Payload (CASPA) mission, the world's first free-flying on-orbit demonstration for cold atom-based science missions.