GREENBELT, MD—Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center here are using additive manufacturing technology to create printed sensors. The autonomous multifunctional sensor platform will be capable of sensing minute concentrations of gases and vapor, atmospheric pressure and temperature, and then transmitting that data via a wireless antenna.
A 3D printing system developed by Northeastern University will be used to apply nanomaterials, layer-by-layer, onto a substrate to create tiny sensors.