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Spaceflight
Systems 
AZ Technology,
Inc. specializes in optical/experimental
flight hardware development, scientific
and engineering research/services, commercial
optics hardware development, thermal control
and protective coatings used primarily in
space applications. Our experience as flight
experiment developers and Principle Investigators
is invaluable. We ARE end users, and this
helps us build tools to support other end
users.
Our major projects include the Optical
Properties Monitor (OPM), the Space Portable
SpectroReflectometer (SPSR), and the X-38
Crew Return Vehicle Flight Battery Module.
The Early Years
OPM and the SPSR were developed under the
protoflight concept in partnership with
NASA and flown aboard the Space Shuttle
and used on the exterior of the Russian
Mir Space Station. These very successful
programs included design, development testing,
and verification of this hardware and included
integrating the requirements for hardware
performance, Shuttle, SpaceHab, and Mir
payloads, and Extravehicular Activities
(EVA) while maintaining a cost-effective
program.
The Present and
the Future
OPM and SPSR are still being used today.
The need to monitor the optical properties
of materials in space is still very important.
AZTek is currently providing systems integration
expertise for the Flight Battery Modules
on the X-38 Crew Return Vehicle. You can
learn more about the X-38 Crew Return Vehicle
project that AZ Technology is supporting.
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