Teledyne eev joins TRUTHS space mission

Teledyne e2v Space Imaging has joined the UK-led climate change TRUTHS mission in a signing ceremony COP 28.

Part of The European Space Agency’s Earth Watch programme, The TRUTHS consortium will create a space-based climate and calibration observatory that will improve confidence in climate change forecasts and support net zero mitigation strategies and their impact.

The mission will collect measurements of energy coming into the Earth from the Sun, and light reflected off the Earth’s surface, to help understand global warming and humanity’s impact on the planet.

Following on from the initial study-phase, Teledyne e2v Space Imaging have been contracted to supply the TRUTHS hyperspectral sensor, and for the full design, manufacture and Technology Readiness Level (TRL) raising activities of the associated front-end electronics.

These are the critical technologies of the Hyperspectral Imaging Spectrometer (HIS) which will acquire Earth, Sun and Moon radiation measurements across the whole spectral range, from ultraviolet to infrared.

“Our sensor and electronics onboard TRUTHS will be the enabling technology of this space-based metrology laboratory for climate change forecasting and play a key role in giving climate decision-makers confidence in climate data gathered from space,” says Teledyne eev’s Antonino Spatola

The TRUTHS mission will be a ‘standards laboratory in space’, setting the ‘gold standard’ reference for climate measurements.  It will ensure that decision-makers can be absolutely confident in the data they use for climate change mitigation strategies and policymaking and assist with the worlds net zero agenda. The TRUTHS is due to launch in 2030.