Tavis satellite transducers have provided propulsion measurements for journeys to orbit other planets, while other Tavis instruments have actually landed on planetary surfaces or measured pressures as the spacecraft plummets through other solar system atmospheres.
Previous hardware for missions to Mars, Jupiter, Venus and the Moon have featured one or more of the following:
- Very low barometric pressure measurements with high proof
- Severe thermal environments
- Tether cable for thermal separation between gage and electronics
- Low power consumption
- Long-term stability over thermal environments
- Ice, sand, dust immunity
- High-cycle power on-off
- Spores bake-out
- Zero Outgassing