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Precision Prisms for Telescope Spectrograph

News - 21 Oct 2019

Chosen as a key supplier for the SPIRou spectrograph* installed at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), Optical Surfaces fabricated and delivered key optical components including twin ZnSe...
NASA Selects Ball Aerospace to Deliver Concept Study for WFIRST Observatory

News - 14 Mar 2016

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by NASA to deliver a concept study for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Wide Field Instrument (WFI), the agency's next...
New Sophisticated Telescope for Detecting Optical Signals from Gravitational Waves

News - 5 Jul 2017

A sophisticated telescope for detecting optical signatures of gravitational waves - developed and operated by a global research partnership, headed by the University of Warwick - has been officially...
Nanosatellites Launched from Yasny Cost a Fraction of Conventional Space Telescopes

News - 20 Jun 2014

Two nanosatellites were launched from Yasny, Russia, at 15:11:11 Eastern Daylight Time today by Anthony Moffat, of the University of Montreal and the Centre for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec, and...
Speciality Prisms for Cryogenic Measurements of Refractive Index for ESO ELT’s Spectrograph - HARMONI

News - 7 Jan 2021

Optical Surfaces Ltd has received an order to supply the University of Oxford, UK with 3 speciality glass prisms for a study that will enable defining key components in the state-of-the-art HARMONI...
New Lightweight X-Ray Mirrors Ready for First Demonstration in Space

News - 30 Jul 2019

Recently, it has been proved that lightweight, super-thin X-ray mirrors produced from a material generally used for making computer chips are capable of meeting the rigid imaging requirements of...
Giant Magellan Telescope Organization Partners Commit Over $500 Million for Construction of Extremely Large Telescopes

News - 4 Jun 2015

The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization has announced today that its 11 international partners have committed more than US$500 million to begin construction of the first of a new generation of...
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Acquires Sharper Images of Dwarf Planet Ceres

News - 18 Feb 2015

Craters and mysterious bright spots are beginning to pop out in the latest images of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. These images, taken Feb. 12 at a distance of 52,000 miles (83,000...
NASA Explores Options for Innovative, Imaginative Uses of Large Space Telescopes

News - 28 Nov 2012

NASA is exploring options for innovative and imaginative uses of two large space telescopes recently transferred to the agency. In a request for information (RFI) published Monday, NASA seeks...
Contract Calls for the Development and Fabrication of High-Res X-ray Calorimeters

News - 14 Apr 2008

Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. and EPIR Technologies, Inc. (EPIR) are pleased to announce the award of a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to EPIR from NASA which...