Asteroid Business Plan

Addressed market and clients The product currently under design is ALFA detector for ESA (2048x2048 15µm pitch) for the *Science and Astronomy needs. It is based on an already proven SFD design (source follower per detector). For Earth observation on the other hand the photon flux is higher. This requires the use of a ROIC with a Capacitor Trans-Impedance Amplifier (CTIA) input stage. For that purpose the COBRA detector currently under development at Lynred (>1.5 Mega pixels - 20µm pixel pitch) for ESA purpose.

With these 2 types of ROICs the science, astronomy, Earth observation and others can be addressed. The potential customers are :

• The national and international space agencies: ESA, CNES, others worldwide…
• International agencies and International Public-Private partnerships building telescopes: future ELT projects, new instruments on existing Telescopes
• Science agencies
• Departments of Defense (DoD)