April 12, 2023

From technologies originally developed for astronauts to everyday medical wearables

Were you aware that technologies initially created to monitor astronauts’ vital signs from afar are now used in everyday medical wearables? To celebrate today's international Day of Human Space Flight, CSEM looks back to the late 1990s when we started developing technologies to measure multiple physiological parameters and laid the foundation for wearable medical devices on Earth.

© CSEM - LTMS was tested together with an ESA rover and a spacesuit mockup in Rio Tinto in Andalucia, southern Spain.