Infrared Filters

Optical filters designed and fabricated within the ISP group have been used on a range of high profile space exploration projects including the Galileo and Cassini probes destined for orbit around Jupiter and Saturn, and various missions destined for Earth's nearest neighbour, Mars. The High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) instrument was successfully launched on the Earth Observing System (EOS) Aura mission. Special precision filters were developed by the group for the recently launched Mars Climate Sounder and developing Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The group also supply narrow Bandpass filters for the Indian National Satellite (INSAT) System and Q-Band filters have been developed that form a key part of the optics for the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) destined to replace the Hubble Telescope in 2011.