Innovating environmental tracking in a high-stakes environment NASA set out to eliminate wiring on sensors to increase the amount of information the system can collect while reducing its overall mass. Wire harness accounted for approximately 60% of the original Developmental Flight Instrumentation (DFI) system’s mass. DFI systems are used to collect data intended to validate the spacecraft’s environments, operations, and other factors. Additionally, each spacecraft mission lasts years, sometimes decades, and NASA needed a reliable, low-maintenance solution. After considering various wireless communication technologies, engineers at NASA selected the Impinj Monza X-8K Dura tag chip for their DFI. By implementing Monza, NASA was able to reduce the DFI’s overall mass while providing a reliabl

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