Cork Satellite Launch ESA: A European Space Agency (ESA) mission will be launched into space later today using technology partly developed by a Cork-based company. Proba-3 will see two satellites sent into orbit to create the first man-made solar eclipse.
Now these satellites contain Cork-made sensors. You know what’s most important to Cork people right? Cork. So here’s an artist’s impression of how those sensors will be working:
More Cartoons by Irish Cartoonist Allan Cavanagh:
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Yes I usually do these cartoons on a Friday but I wanted to be topical with the launch!
“The crafts will fly with 1mm precision and this will be made possible by technology developed in part at the Cork office of US sensor and semiconductor developer, Onsemi, which bought the Cork based start-up, SensL, in 2018.
The silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) allow the two satellites to fly in millimetre-scale formation at a speed of 22,000mph.” So they can know where Cork is at all times.
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