Pressure Sensors for Sub-Orbital Express Flight

SSC (Swedish Space Corporation) is a universal supplier of state-of-the-art space engineering, satellite, and launch services located in Solna (Stockholm) and Kiruna (Northern Sweden).

SCC has designed a rocket called the suborbital express, which can travel 260 km deep in the thermosphere and perform tests in six minutes in weightless conditions. The rocket then returns to Earth and lands north of Kiruna, retrieved by a helicopter. The SCC then analyzes the data obtained by the rocket and makes it available to scientists and researchers.

In 2019, SCC used special pressure sensors. The next flight will use pressure transmitters in a series of experimental cells. In experimental cells, experiments are performed with graphene particles and liquid droplets (graphene is highly elastic, is an electrical conductor, can withstand rupture, and is considered the material of the future).

In addition, pressure sensors can measure the gas pressure in aircraft nitrogen gas cylinders.

Pressure sensors will be present on the next sub-Orbital Express flight on June 1, 2022.