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Space components and custom optics

Alongside the catalogue, Chromar designs optics to a customer's specification and supplies them as production components.

Spacecraft illustration
Image elements furnished by NASA.
16 mm star tracker optic

16 mm star tracker optic

  • EFL 16 mm
  • f/# 1.4
  • Image Ø 6.8 mm
  • Bands VIS NIR

Flight-proven

More than 100 in orbit. A four-stage external baffle suppresses stray light. Supplied as optics and mechanics, built, tested and documented, without electronics.

Sun sensor optic

Sun sensor optic

A reticle and neutral-density filter in a titanium housing, built to an ESA specification. Chromar's design; supplied as the optical assembly, without sensor or electronics.

Cap lamp optic

Miner's cap lamp optic

An injection-moulded illumination optic designed to the lamp maker's specification. The optical design and the production mould are Chromar's.

C2503008MW

C250 f/3 MWIR telescope

C2503008MW
  • EFL 250 mm
  • f/# 3
  • Image Ø 16.4 mm
  • Band MWIR

In development

A catadioptric telescope for the mid-wave infrared, covering a 1,280 × 1,024 cooled detector with 10 µm pixels. Planned for full space qualification with an engineering, qualification and flight model.

Need an optic built to your specification?

Send us the requirement. We design to it, build it, and test it on our own equipment.