Space Telescopes

We have fully qualified solutions for today's Space application and will continue to challenge the rigors of Space tomorrow, as the leading supplier of optics for X-ray missions.

With its revolutionary technology based on the science of electroforming, Media Lario Technologies is ready to face future X-ray missions which set highest demands on optical performances and has already committed to two important missions with renowned astrophysical organizations. Media Lario Technologies is able to meet this challenge thanks to its capabilities of manufacturing ultra-smooth reflective surfaces with extremely high shape accuracy.

The Company’s applications for space telescopes are based on a multi-shell double-reflection grazing incidence design with optimized reflective coatings and the possibility of a multi-layer deposition to enable reflection at highest energy levels of up to 70-100 KeV.

Media Lario Technologies obtains its reflective optics from highly accurate electro-deposited replications of a previously manufactured high-precision master. The form of the master itself is designed as the negative shape of the desired component. The ultra-smooth surface and accurate shape of the master is achieved by employing advanced grinding and polishing techniques. Media Lario Technologies’ high-accuracy replication process allows the reproduction of a series of identical shells from the master surface, ensuring the fulfillment of highest demands on technical specifications and offering a cost effective approach to high-volume production.

Thanks to the Company’s achievement of producing X-ray reflective systems with a surface micro-roughness down to 3-4 A, Media Lario Technologies’ customers today are able to deliver scientific missions and programs in order to discover unknown scientific evidences of the universe.