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February 22nd, 2021
Teledyne commends NASA on the successful landing of the Mars Rover Perseverance

Teledyne’s innovative and robust technology will help to advance human knowledge of past microbial life on the planet

Thousand Oaks, California  – Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY) is proud to contribute several of its advanced high performance image sensors to form part of the complex instrumentation onboard the Mars Rover Perseverance. Teledyne sensors will power, sense and help analyze the chemical composition of the surface and minerals, including Gy and atmosphere during the Mars 2020 mission.

The Mars 2020 mission addresses high-priority scientific goals, including the search for signs of past microbial life and more importantly, answers to address the question of the potential for life on Mars. Providing opportunities to gather knowledge and demonstrate technologies that address the challenges of future human expeditions to Mars, the mission will include testing a method for producing oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, identifying other resources (subsurface water), improving landing techniques, and characterizing weather, dust, and other potential environmental conditions that could affect future astronauts living and working on Mars.

Teledyne provided CCD image sensors to drive both the SuperCam and Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals (SHERLOC); instruments that will search for organic compounds and minerals, determining if they have been altered by watery environments, and proving signs of past microbial life on the planet.

In addition, a Teledyne semiconductor foundry built the JPL-designed CCD image sensor that powers SkyCam, part of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA), a meteorological suite for the Mars 2020 rover.

The key optical components for the SHERLOC UV spectrometer were produced by Teledyne, including the lenses and mirrors in the Conditioning Optics Module, lenses in the Context Imager Lens assembly,  and broadband mirrors in the spectrometer module. Teledyne also supplied infrared photodiodes held within the SuperCam instrument.

In addition, all of the electricity required to operate Perseverance is provided by a power system called a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) developed by Teledyne Energy Systems.

“We are proud to contribute to the discovery that will take place as a result of the Mars 2020 mission and pave the way for humans to one day visit Mars,” said Dr. Robert Mehrabian, Executive Chairman of Teledyne.

Teledyne has a long and proud tradition of enabling the exploration of Mars, including the 2012 Mars rover, Curiosity, where multiple companies, again, contributed both innovative and robust technology to a successful mission. Contributions included the MMRTG (also onboard Perseverance), high reliability relays, switches and RF modules and some of the image sensors in the navigation and hazard avoidance cameras.

About Teledyne Technologies Incorporated

Teledyne Technologies is a leading provider of sophisticated instrumentation, digital imaging products and software, aerospace and defense electronics, and engineered systems. Teledyne’s operations are primarily located in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Western and Northern Europe. For more information, visit Teledyne’s website at www.teledyne.com