Sensors and Instrumentation for Space Environment Measurement

From The Next Decade in Solar and Space Physics: Exploring and Safeguarding Humanity's Home in Space (2025), a robust and sustained technology development program ensures advancement of measurement capabilities across the full range of maturity, from inception of a novel concept that may or may not work, to mass production of hundreds of instrument copies. For the subtopic Sensors and Instrumentation for Space Environment Measurement, development of advanced remote-sensing and in situ instrument technologies and components suitable for Heliophysics missions for solar and geospace science, Moon2Mars, and space weather applications are the solicited technologies that must be capable of withstanding operation in space environments. These environments include the expected pressures, radiation levels, launch and impact stresses, and range of survival and operational temperatures. This solicitation prioritizes key sensor subsystems' technology developments that result in a reduction of mass, power, volume, and data rates for instruments and instrument components without loss of scientific capability while providing greater scalability for mass production.