Photo of the Week: Space – Starris: Optimax

Starris: Optimax Space Systems and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) entered a commercialization partnership for LLNL’s patented monolithic telescope technology, which accelerates rapid deployment of modular optical designs for high-resolution or high-sensitivity space imagery. Starris has collaborated with LLNL’s Space Program to develop the technology over the past decade and will manufacture — at scale and with customization options — the precision-fabricated optical lens that forms the image in the telescope. LLNL’s monolithic optics are a novel line of compact Cassegrain telescopes constructed out of a single piece of fused silica for a compact, shelf-stable, resilient space telescope.

Photo Credit: Garry McLeod