Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), a leading provider of advanced imaging solutions, is proud to announce the release of three variants of industrial CMOS sensors, with resolutions ranging from 1.3MP up to 67MP, following a delta space qualification methodology and radiation testing. These industrial image sensors are designed, manufactured and tested in Grenoble-France and Seville-Spain and upscreened for space in the Grenoble facilities. The Upscreened Variants (USV) are intended to be suitable for new space applications such as Earth observation and remote sensing payloads, star trackers, monitoring cameras, and cameras for space suits, rovers, moon landers, and space situational or domain awareness. These new products complement Teledyne’s ongoing offerings for demanding science and defense missions by providing options for the less rigorous New Space market.

“Within the New Space industry, some system designers may use COTS sensors and make them fly with no upscreening, which means that they take the risk of any malfunctions or errors further down the line,” explains Céline Semécas, Product Marketing Manager, Teledyne e2v. “Teledyne e2v’s industrial upscreened image sensors are tested for space and are delivered as flight models with lot validation test certificates and radiation test reports.”

The three CMOS sensors will undergo full screening, serialization and lot validation tests. Depending on the mission profile, they are delivered as flight models with two levels of screening, according to U1 (ESCC9020-like) or U3 (NASA Class 3 tailored for image sensors). Devices were sampled and have been through radiation characterization in specialized facilities, including testing for Single Event Latch-up (SEL), Single Event Effect (SEE), and Single Event Functional Interrupt (SEFI) malfunctions or errors. The image sensors feature a broad range of embedded functions, including sub-sampling, multi-region of interest (ROI), defective pixel correction, and high dynamic range capability.

For satellite star trackers and monitoring cameras, the Ruby 1.3M USV is a radiation tolerant 1.3MP (1280 x 1024) global shutter sensor optimized for space systems that are subject to constraints, such as size, weight and power (SWaP) and cost. Housed in a 12.7mm x 12.7mm CLCC packaging, this 5.3µm pixel pitch sensor can fit with cost-effective 1/1.8” lenses, consumes very low (≤200mW) power, and is available in a monochrome or colour version.

The Emerald Gen2 12M USV is a compact 12MP (4096 x 3072) global shutter imaging sensor for monitoring cameras with a 2.8µm pitch, and available in monochrome and colour versions. It features a very low readout noise performance of less than 3 electrons, delivering excellent image quality and the ability to work in high-contrast scenes. It has ROI features, enabling Teledyne e2v to offer an 8.9MP ROI image sensor in the same packaging, allowing space engineers to make even smaller cameras because they can use smaller optics. This sensor also features both LVDS and MIPI outputs, which ease the integration.

The Emerald 67M USV is a 67MP (8192 x 8192) image sensor that features one of the smallest global shutter pixel pitches (2.5µm) on the market. This 8K high-resolution device can cover a large swath for Earth observation and is also suitable for space domain awareness applications, allowing them to cover a large field of view. Emerald 67M USV combines low noise (<3e- @ 12 bits), providing excellent image quality in low light conditions, and up to 65 fps @10 bits, providing sharp images at very high speed. The image sensor can support monochrome or colour video and can be used for multispectral imaging.

Teledyne e2v provides a full range of tools to ease system integration of the CMOS sensors and accelerate time-to-market. These tools include evaluation kits, reference designs, radiation reports and space qualification reports. “With a dedicated support team and quick response times, Teledyne e2v in Grenoble supports space engineers from design concept to system launch,” adds Céline Semécas. “Furthermore, Teledyne e2v is used to managing long-term supplies with applications that require long product life cycles and obsolescence management.”

During SmallSat Europe 2025, Europe's leading event dedicated to small satellites, which will take place on May 27 and 28 at the RAI Convention Center in Amsterdam, visitors to the Teledyne stand, at booth 737, can watch a live demo showcasing the performance characteristics of the new Emerald Gen2 12M USV upscreened image sensors.

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Note to Editors

Teledyne Space Imaging
Teledyne Space Imaging offers innovative space imaging products, including those from sister companies. This new line of industrial image sensors upscreened for space is from Teledyne e2v in Grenoble. This facility is known for its high-performance, high-reliability semiconductors for the most demanding space applications.
Teledyne Space Imaging is part of Teledyne Technologies, a leading provider of sophisticated digital imaging products and software, instrumentation, aerospace and defense electronics, and engineered systems. Teledyne's operations are primarily located in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Western and Northern Europe.
For more information, visit Teledyne's websites: www.teledyne.com and www.TeledyneSpaceImaging.com

Contact - Teledyne e2v
Yuki Chan - MarCom Manager
Email: yuki.chan@teledyne.com

A consortium funded by the European Union (EU) is developing advanced high-resolution image sensing technology that could be used in a variety of space missions, including Earth observation, planetary exploration, and scientific research.



The three-year Technology for European iNdependence in Space Image Sensor (TENSIS) project will address the EU-based development of advanced CMOS imaging sensors. The project will aim to create a strategic, competitive advantage for European prime and equipment manufacturers and reduce the dependence on critical technologies and capabilities from outside the EU.



The program was launched on 11 February 2025 at an inauguration event in consortium member Teledyne e2v facilities in Saint-Egrève, Grenoble Area, France. It aims to validate a scalable, large-area, high-resolution, radiation tolerant, customizable, and affordable 180nm CMOS detector, with the key technical characteristics of a 24K x 16K stitched CMOS matrix of 400MPixels. A smaller 4K x 4K stitched CMOS array will also be designed and manufactured.



The project comprises several industrial partners, each of whom brings valuable expertise. Teledyne e2v Semiconductors SAS (France) and Teledyne Innovaciones Microelectronicas SL (Spain) will oversee the project, design the detectors, including the pixel, while imec (Belgium) will manage the development of the optical stack on top of the CMOS detector including filters and optical microlenses.



Meanwhile, Airbus Defence and Space SAS (France) will lead the development of the test equipment and assess the performance of the detector prototypes. Alter Technology Tüv Nord (Spain) will validate the smaller 4K x 4K detector for use in the space environment.



“TENSIS will result in the development of advanced image sensors for space that are high-resolution and durable against space conditions,” says Marc Iliozer, Project & Engineering Director at Teledyne e2v. “The project will help establish strategic capability in Europe and ensure independence in space technology for years to come.”



The project will run until 31 December 2027. The 24k x 16k stitched CMOS array is expected to reach Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6, with a prototype sensor tested in a relevant environment. The 4k x 4k CMOS detector will reach TRL7, taking it one step closer to final product development.



“The partners are excited to be collaborating on the TENSIS project,” adds Marc. “It is a venture that epitomizes the spirit of European innovation and cooperation.”





About Teledyne e2v Semiconductors & Teledyne AnaFocus

Teledyne e2v’s innovations lead developments in healthcare, life sciences, Space, transportation, defense and security and industrial markets. Teledyne e2v’s unique approach involves listening to the market and application challenges of customers and partnering with them to provide innovative standard, semi-custom or fully custom solutions, bringing increased value to their systems.



About Airbus Defence and Space

Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus Group responsible for defence and aerospace products and services. The company is a leader in designing, developing, and manufacturing military aircraft, space systems, and connected intelligence systems and services.



About imec (Belgium)

imec (Belgium) is a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies.



About Alter Technology Tüv Nord

Alter Technology Tüv Nord specializes in engineering, testing, and procurement of high-reliability electronic components and equipment, serving sectors like space, aeronautics, automotive, and defense, ensuring quality and reliability for critical applications and advanced technologies.



Contact - Teledyne e2v

Yuki Chan - MarCom Manager

Email: yuki.chan@teledyne.com

By integrating BAE Systems' Prophesea product with Datifex's SeaReady™ solution, Fleetway is delivering a comprehensive solution that transforms how defence organizations sustain complex assets.

With the global geopolitical landscape more turbulent and unpredictable than it has been for some time, nations are under increasing pressure to maximize the operational availability of their critical physical assets.

Failure to do so could put national security and the lives of military personnel at risk – not to mention significantly increasing the financial burden of those assets.

Nations need to establish a digital thread that runs throughout their asset management operations. As such, the key to success lies in connecting sustainment enablers across engineering, maintenance and supply chains – in close partnership with industry.

The Sustainment Challenge

Data lies at the heart of defence decision-making. For organizations managing complex assets like naval vessels or land vehicles, the digital thread connecting design, manufacturing, operations and maintenance provides the foundation for effective sustainment. This requires a robust system of record that integrates disparate data sources, providing a single, trustworthy source of truth.

Delivering this is no mean feat given that today’s complex physical assets are typically managed through a multitude of systems sitting across different parts of an organization's infrastructure. What’s more, these systems are often unable to communicate with each other, resulting in siloed data and a lack of visibility across assets.

Yet, even if organizations are able to generate a holistic view of asset data, a significant challenge remains; namely, how to quickly extract actionable insights from this wealth of information in a way that unlocks strategic advantage in the most demanding of environments. When planning maintenance periods or assessing operational readiness, how can teams effectively determine the root cause of a particular issue? Or its prevalence across the fleet? How can they collaboratively resolve complex issues? Or deconflict activities during docking work periods?

Finding the answers to these questions in a timely manner can be difficult, yet doing so is critical to ensuring assets remain mission-ready.

Maximizing Material Readiness
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For defence organizations, it all comes down to reducing the cognitive burden of managing complex assets to maximize readiness. Leveraging digital solutions to transform how teams understand, communicate and act on asset information can deliver tangible outcomes including:

• Reduced work period durations through more efficient planning and execution
• Increased operational availability
• Improved allocation of maintenance resources
• Enhanced collaboration between all sustainment stakeholders
• Greater confidence in asset condition and mission readiness
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A Powerful Collaboration
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Of course, this challenge isn’t easy for any one organization to solve alone, which is why collaboration across industry is so important.

The integration leverages the strengths of both platforms to create a seamless sustainment ecosystem and deliver end-to-end asset intelligence. Prophesea integrates and centralizes critical asset data from multiple sources while SeaReady transforms this data into an intuitive, web-based 3D environment that makes complex information immediately comprehensible. The lightweight 3D models are accessible from any device, ensuring that all stakeholders – from contractors to engineers and commanders – can access critical asset information regardless of location.

The solution integrates work packages directly with technical data, mapping engineering changes, defects and maintenance items to their specific locations within the asset model. As a result, users can immediately see not just what needs attention, but precisely where issues are located and how they relate to surrounding systems and components.

By visualizing the material state of assets and providing filtering capabilities based on criticality, system or location, the integrated platform enables teams to identify patterns and optimize maintenance planning. Users can quickly assess the scope of issues, evaluate historical maintenance data, and determine the most effective intervention strategy.

The web-based platform breaks down geographical and organizational barriers, enabling real-time collaboration between distributed teams. Shipyard personnel, maintenance crews, engineers, and operators can share the same visual understanding of asset condition, creating a foundation for more effective communication and coordinated action.

The Path Forward
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Ultimately, in today’s digital-heavy defence environment, empowering users to easily access and interact with disparate sources of information will be key to success. This is what will enable nations to create shared situational awareness in support of better and faster decision-making.

As defence organizations continue their digital transformation journeys, transforming complex asset management will provide the foundation for next-generation sustainment capabilities that deliver what matters most: mission readiness when it counts.

Halifax, Nova Scotia – September 11th, 2024

Funding from Innovative Solutions Canada is supporting a new partnership between Datifex and the Halifax Port Authority (HPA) to use innovative technology for enhancing safety measures at the Port of Halifax. The project will test how the DATIVerse™ platform combines and analyzes various data in real-time, helping HPA staff manage port operations and efficiency.

DATIVerse™ is a software platform that brings together data, logic, and controls into lightweight, interactive virtual environments to create industrial metaverses. The technology aims to improve safety and efficiency by providing a complete view of operations, helping foresee and tackle potential problems, and enhancing situational awareness and decision-making.

Innovative Solutions Canada is an initiative designed to help Canadian startups and small/medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) overcome technology testing and development hurdles so that they can produce globally demanded products and services, while also improving government operations. It will also assist Transport Canada in understanding how industrial metaverses can improve port safety and operations.

The project is a joint effort that started at The PIER (Port Innovation, Engagement and Research), a living lab dedicated to solving complex problems in transportation, supply chain, and logistics industries established by the Halifax Port Authority.

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‍“It’s fantastic to be collaborating with Transport Canada and the Halifax Port Authority at The PIER. With DATIVerse™, Datifex is set to enhance port operations, leveraging our expertise to support Canada’s vision for digitalized ports. This initiative demonstrates the ability of the ISC program to get innovations in the hands of end users to improve safety and efficiency at Canadian ports.”

- Chris Erickson
CEO
Datifex
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"DATIVerse creates a digital twin of the port environment. Then, by aggregating real-time data, incorporating AI, and utilizing Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality (AR/VR,) it will provide stakeholders with exceptional situational awareness. The platform will lead to enhanced safety protocols, optimized workflows, and streamlined decision-making."

- Corey Gleason
Deputy Harbour Master
Halifax Port Authority

Duratek participated in the Korea–Czech Space & Aviation Forum held from April 9–10, 2025, in Seoul and Daejeon. The forum was co-hosted by the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA), the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Korea, and the Czech Ministry of Transport, with the aim of strengthening bilateral cooperation in the space and aerospace sectors (KASA source).

[Participation & Delegation]
The event brought together 24 institutions and companies from both countries.
From the Czech side: Czech Ministry of Transport, Czech Space Alliance, Brno Space Cluster, UDX.aero, HiLASE, and others.
From Korea: Duratek, KASA, KARI, KAI, Hanwha, LIG Nex1, Satrec Initiative, and more leading firms in the aerospace domain.

[Key Activities]
Technical Exchange Session (April 9): Presentations were delivered by Czech and Korean companies across areas such as satellite technology, launch vehicles, and data analysis. Duratek showcased its cutting-edge solutions and space-grade power systems.

- B2B Meetings: One-on-one business discussions were held to identify potential partnerships and cooperation models.
- High-Level Diplomatic Meetings (April 10): Talks focused on MOU opportunities, human resource exchanges, and Czech delegation visits to Korea’s aerospace sites.
- Site Visits: The Czech delegation toured major Korean aerospace facilities including KARI, LIG Nex1, Satrec Initiative, TelePIX, and Nara Space.

On July 21 (local time), at the Korea Pavilion of the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) 2025 in Malaysia, the booth of Korean SME Augmented Knowledge Corporation drew attention. When visitors wore a mixed reality (MR) headset resembling goggles, a 3D image of the landing gear of a Boeing 737 appeared before their eyes. Instructions on how to open the brake section of the landing gear were displayed on the screen, and the same content was read aloud. When the user said “Next page,” the display advanced to the next step.

The Korea Pavilion at the event was organized by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and the Agency for Defense Development (ADD), who brought together a group of mid-sized and small defense firms. Their leadership in establishing the pavilion is seen as a signal to international buyers that the Korean government stands behind its SMEs as a strong partner.

When Augmented Knowledge Corporation, an SME utilizing artificial intelligence (AI), demonstrated their technology to visitors wearing MR headsets, large crowds quickly gathered. A company representative explained, “We’ve trained an AI model on hundreds of thousands of pages of aircraft maintenance manuals, then rendered the procedures in virtual 3D.” The representative added, “According to aviation safety law, maintenance tasks must strictly follow the manual. Our virtual display and voice-guided system help improve operational efficiency by enabling technicians to follow instructions step by step.”

CEO Keun-Sik Cho of Augmented Knowledge further noted, “This technology can even be used for actual aircraft repairs,” and emphasized that “work time can be reduced by half.”

The system is already in use at several Korean aviation science high schools. Under Korean aviation law, aircraft maintenance training institutions are required to own at least three real aircraft, but the company’s solution was granted a regulatory exemption through the government's regulatory sandbox program in 2021.

CEO Cho added, “We are currently preparing for a collaboration with GE Aerospace, a major U.S. aircraft engine manufacturer,” and expressed ambitions to expand into the aviation education and MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul) markets in Malaysia and across Southeast Asia.