Winnipeg Free Press
MINNEDOSA is a long way from Mars, but a company based in the town played a role in getting the Mars Perseverance rover safely onto the red planet.
MINNEDOSA is a long way from Mars, but a company based in the town played a role in getting the Mars Perseverance rover safely onto the red planet.
Canadian Photonic Labs supplied its Mega Speed high-speed cameras and software to help NASA test the landing decelerator and parachute system that was eventually used to get rovers onto the surface of Mars in one piece, said president Mark Wahoski.
The cameras were mounted on a rocket sled used to test the decelerator. They captured images that are too fast for the human eye to see, he said.