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Agile, space-qualified optical payloads enable customers to enter booming space economy quickly with low risk.
Ontario, N.Y. — The commercialization of space is creating unprecedented opportunities for the space economy. Starris: Optimax Space Systems is entering the new space race to swiftly lift customer ideas into orbit via space-qualified optical payloads. The official launch of Starris will be Aug. 5 at the Small Satellite convention in Utah.
Starris is powered by three decades of space-qualified innovation and precision optics from parent company Optimax. Optics produced by Optimax have enabled a wide variety of space-flight missions, including NASA Mars Rovers and commercial space ventures. Optimax presently has optics on thousands of satellites orbiting the earth.
Starris integrates space-rated optics, sensors, and electronics into digital cameras and instruments using pre-engineered modular systems, which reduces risk, cost, and time in delivering custom optical-based payloads for flight.
Starris will develop payloads from idea to launch-ready in less than one year for applications that include earth observing (land use, weather, natural resources, supply chain, emissions monitoring), space infrastructure (star trackers, navigation, docking), resource exploitation (survey and mining of the moon and asteroids), space manufacturing (microgravity production of pharmaceutics and advanced materials), and defense (earth orbiting and surveillance).
“The global space economy is at an inflection point, poised to nearly triple by 2025, reaching a staggering $1.8 trillion,” said Joseph Spilman, CEO of Optimax. “To accelerate our pace, the industry must shift to a new norm where risk, cost, and time to orbit are significantly minimized. That is Starris’ mission — enable our customers to accelerate their pace. Starris will dramatically…
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