An asteroid-tracking infrared sensor that Camarillo, Calif.-based Teledyne Imaging Sensors developed with funding from NASA recently passed a performance test in a cryostat mimicking the temperatures and pressures of deep space, according to an April 15 NASA press release. The sensor is a key component of the asteroid-hunting Near-Earth Object Camera (NEO-Cam) telescope that NASA's Pasadena, Calif.-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory and its partners at Teledyne and the University of Rochester, N.Y., first proposed to NASA's Discovery Program in 2006 and again in 2010.
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