Terra15’s DAS technology featured in Fleet Space Technologies’ recent expedition to Antarctica, one of Earth’s most extreme and scientifically valuable analogue environments for future Moon and Mars missions.
Led by polar explorer Tim Jarvis AM, Fleet Space convened a global team of scientists and engineers from organisations including NASA Ames Research Center, Honeybee Robotics, Columbia University, and the SETI Institute to test and refine off-world exploration technologies that support in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU).
As part of the campaign, the team deployed Fleet Space’s lunar seismic technology (SPIDER) alongside a TRIDENT-like lunar drill and a Treble distributed acoustic sensing interrogator from Terra15, advancing a methodology for real-time 3D subsurface imaging and drilling to operate as a unified, data-driven system on new worlds.
DAS is particularly well-suited to harsh field conditions because it turns fibre into a continuous sensor, enabling high-resolution insight over long distances from a single interrogator.
We congratulate Fleet Space and the broader collaboration on this impressive milestone and look forward to seeing these learnings inform future exploration missions.
Read Fleet Space’s full story here: “Antarctica: Advancing Off-World Exploration Science For Moon & Mars Missions”.