Space & Terrestrial Telescopes – From Space to Semi and Back

"The most powerful telescope ever built" (Prof. Dr. Roger Bonnet, ESA Director of Science) – XMM satellite mission launched in 1999

Since its foundation in 1993, Media Lario Technologies has continuously pursued its participation in space projects which offer exceptional opportunities in creating innovative technologies and strengthening competencies.

Thanks to its long-standing relationship with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA), Media Lario Technologies has been capable of validating and developing its reflective optics and systems for the most advanced X-ray missions. Media Lario Technologies has participated in the Beppo SAX, JET-X, and NASA’s SWIFT missions and, most notably, was part of ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory project with the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built. The XMM-Newton was launched in 1999 and is still orbiting earth.

As the prime contractor in the XMM-Newton project, Media Lario Technologies successfully designed, manufactured and tested three flight telescopes and additional test units and reached an outstanding performance exceeding specifications: the "XMM-Newton X-ray observatory is fully living up to its promise with a steady stream of fascinating data" (ESA press release, 76-2000).

The evolution and differentiation of our manufacturing and system engineering capabilities is allowing us to serve also the market of the ground based telescopes providing panels for the main reflectors and the semiconductor processing equipment market offering reflective optics for illumination optics, and inspection and metrology systems.