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Image Sensor Contract

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Chelmsford, UK-based e2v technologies plc has been awarded a contract to develop image sensors for the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission to map the geometry of the dark universe. The global provider of high-performance imaging solutions will develop a CCD sensor that will form the visible focal plane array in the space telescope. When launched, the satellite will orbit the sun 1.5 million km beyond the Earth for a five-year period, surveying the extragalactic sky.Read full article

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    Published: December 2010
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    focal plane array
    A linear or two-dimensional matrix of individual detector elements, typically used at the focus of an imaging system.
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