MANUFACTURERS OF CUSTOM, HIGH PRECISION INSTRUMENTATION AND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT
Projects
- Lidar and Directed Energy Components
- Complete Lidar/Active Instruments
- Raman Airborne Spectroscopic Lidar (RASL)
- LVIS
- Micro-Pulse Lidar
- THOR Lidar
- Phasers - Prototype Holographic Atmospheric Scanner for Environmental Remote Sensing
- HARLIE (Holographic Airborne Rotating Lidar Instrument Experiment) Hemisphere Scanning Stage
- High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL)
- GOLD
- 2-micron CO2 Lidar
- DAWN AIR1
- Support Equipment
- Aircraft Installations
- ER-2 Doppler Radar Data System Enclosure
- Cloud Radar System Data System Enclosure
- King Air Rear Cargo Area Riser plate and electronics racks
- King Air 4-bay electronics rack with shock isolation
- RSP Instrument installation in King Air
- HSRL instrument installation
- 400mm aperture window port for King Air HSRL-247-X
- Raman Airborne Spectroscopic Lidar (RASL)
- RASL segmented window and external heat exchanger
- LVIS installation in King Air
- MASTER installation in King Air
- HiWRAP in WB-57
- Complete Passive Optical Instruments
- RF Instruments
- Single Point Diamond Turning
- Space-based Instruments
Featured Projects
AEROTEL Chopper Wheel
The Aerotel System is an airborne Lidar instrument based out of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and is jointly operated by GSFC and NASA Langley. As the laser light leaves the aircraft, it passes through a window that separates the cabin environment from the outside. Some laser light reflects off this window as well as the atmosphere near the aircraft. These near reflections are not wanted but are still gathered by the telescope and can saturate the detectors. This makes the detectors less sensitive when the desired signal from farther distances reaches the telescope. Read more.
Cloud Physics Lidar Handling Cart
The Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) instrument was designed to fly in the Superpod on the NASA ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft. The instrument is shown in the renderings as a blue box (transceiver), two gray electronics boxes, and a gold-colored standard ER-2 frame made from aluminum angle brackets. For aircraft integration, the CPL instrument slides into the Superpod along the rails on the side of the frame. Previously, the approximately 200-pound (90.7-kilogram) instrument was lifted by three to four people and then slid onto the rails in the ER-2 Superpod. Read more.
ER-2 Doppler Radar - Data System Electronics Enclosure
The Electronics Enclosure was designed and built for a Doppler Radar instrument that is housed in the nose of the NASA ER-2 high altitude research aircraft. The system had a previous design for an enclosure to hold its data processing electronics. The old design was difficult to install, did not provide an adequate thermal environment for the electronics, and was not asthettically pleasing. Read more.