The overall success of the StarTiger project was that the team managed in a very short time, only four months, to research, develop and combine a series of state-of-art technologies, and to produce a working imager able to capture pictures in the terahertz frequency range, 0.25 and 0.3 THz. This result confirmed the potential of the StarTiger innovative R&D methodology.
The StarTiger ‘colour’ terahertz imager is here seen under test at ESTEC, The Netherlands, by Peter de Maagt, ESA’s StarTiger Project Manager.