Mirrors and stable structures
Boostec® Silicon Carbide -Sic- for Space optical instrumentation
Boostec® SiC provides an ideal solution for instruments requiring exceptional thermomechanical stability. Using Boostec® technology, whole instruments can be made in SiC: structure and detector supports as well as the mirrors themselves.
The optical face of the mirrors can receive a SiC CVD coating to produce a completely non-porous surface, for a flawless polishable finish.
19 full-SiC telescopes operated in space and 10 others being integrated or tested
- SPACE LIDARS for Earth Atmosphere Observation: Aladin Aeolus & Atlid Earth Care
- METOP-SG-A for Meteorology: IASI-NG & METimage derotator
- MICROCARB for CO2 flux monitoring
- Institutional MULTI SPECTRAL IMAGERY: Sentinel-2, Pleiades & CSO FPs
- NAOMI TELESCOPES: Export and Airbus DS Intelligence
- OTHER EARTH IMAGERY at Export: Formosat-2, Theos-1, GOCI-1 and -2
- OSIRIS ROSETTA Narrow Angle Camera
- EUCLID: Main telescope, VIS and NISP instruments
Space optical instrumentation: 20 years of unique know-how
Mersen Boostec designs and manufactures:
- monolithic parts up to:
- 1.30 m in diameter for circular parts
- 1.65 x 1.30 x 0.60 m for rectangular parts
- SiC brazed assemblies up to:
- 3.5 m in diameter.
Mersen Boostec's know-how also extends to structural bonding and bolting techniques for assembling SiC parts together or with parts made of other materials.