Tempus Pro

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and his colleagues Randy Bresnik of NASA and Sergei Ryazansky of Roscosmos returned to Earth from the International Space Station on 14 December 2017 in their Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft landing at 08:37 GMT. 

The ride home from the International Space Station saw the trio brake from 28 800 km/h to a standstill at touchdown in barely three hours.

Tempus Pro, a portable vital-signs monitor capable of telemedicine via satellite, is helping medics at ESA astronaut landings. Thomas Pesquet was the first to benefit following his Proxima mission.

At Paolo Nespoli's landing a set of features of this device including the ultrasound probe, developed during the ESA Amazon project, were used under the harsh Kazakh winter conditions.  

Remote Diagnostic Technologies in the UK developed the Tempus device with funding and support from the Business Applications part of ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems programme.