{"id":632,"date":"2024-03-14T21:56:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T21:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/lasso\/?page_id=632"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:59:16","slug":"space-geodesy-planet-exploration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/lasso\/application\/space-geodesy-planet-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Geodesy &amp; Planet Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"632\" class=\"elementor elementor-632\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e1d2bd8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e1d2bd8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a9b53d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4a9b53d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 300;color: #000000;max-width: 838px;padding: 1em\"><div style=\"overflow: hidden;margin-bottom: 20px\"><p style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 300;line-height: 1.7;margin: 0 0 16px 0\">Geodesy refers to measurement of the shape, orientation, and gravitational field of the Earth.New technologies have as objective to develop and improve the design of compact micro\u2011fabricated optomechanical accelerometers for use in future GRACE\u2011like mass change missions to a technology readiness level (TRL) of 4\u20135.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1080 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/lasso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2026\/06\/LargeRender1.0001-removebg-preview-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/lasso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2026\/06\/LargeRender1.0001-removebg-preview-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/lasso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2026\/06\/LargeRender1.0001-removebg-preview.png 666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><br \/>In accordance with this, having size, weight, and power (SWaP) characteristics compatible with compact spacecraft platforms such as CubeSats, miniaturized accelerometers are a promising technology for compact, cost\u2011effective inertial sensing with observation continuity.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 300;line-height: 1.7;margin: 0 0 16px 0\">That&#8217;s why our current research is based on using low\u2011loss materials, and in this way, LASSO is developing monolithic optomechanical acceleration sensors with high sensitivities at low frequencies (10\u207b\u00b9\u00b3 m\/\u221aHz at 2 mHz to 10\u207b\u00b9\u2075 m\/\u221aHz at 100 Hz). These sensors can achieve an acceleration noise floor of 4\u00d710\u207b\u00b9\u00b9 m s\u207b\u00b2 with a high mechanical quality factor (above Q \u2248 500,000).<\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto aligncenter\" style=\"float: center;margin-bottom: 10px;object-fit: contain\" src=\"https:\/\/lasso.engr.tamu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2020\/08\/space-geodesy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 300;line-height: 1.7;margin: 0 0 16px 0\">LASSO is currently conducting characterization and performance measurements to check our existing models, and we are also developing and testing packaging of these accelerometers for a space\u2011flight instrument prototype that preserves the high mechanical quality factor.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geodesy refers to measurement of the shape, orientation, and gravitational field of the Earth.New technologies have as objective to develop and improve the design of compact micro\u2011fabricated optomechanical accelerometers for use in future GRACE\u2011like mass change missions to a technology readiness level (TRL) of 4\u20135. 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