Commercial Off-The-Shelf GMR Based Sensor on Board Optos Picosatellite

Space is an environment of extreme parameters. Wide temperature swings, very low pressures (vacuum), moderate to high radiation, mechanical vibrations and impacts, etc. Thus, components for space applications, which need to stand these hard conditions, are normally very expensive and it often takes a while to include emerging technologies in the space market. This means that space components are not always that innovative.

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