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How Our Coatings Lab Supports Your Success from Prototype to Production

March 8, 2026

Choosing the right coating partner is as critical as selecting the right materials or hardware supplier—especially for aerospace, space, and defense programs where performance, reliability, and schedule are tightly linked. Surface Optics Corporation offers a combination of technical depth, manufacturing flexibility, and responsiveness that allows customers to move efficiently from concept to production.  With decades of experience in thin-film […]

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Illustration of antireflection coating process

Surface Optics Presents Optical Coating Process for Complex Shaped Surfaces at Navy Technology Event

March 16, 2021

Surface Optics was awarded a Phase II NAVAIR Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to develop antireflection coatings for aerodynamic missile domes and will present this new optical coating technology at the Navy Forum for SBIR/STTR Transition (FST), March 17-18. Hosted by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), this event connects SBIR/STTR-funded technologies with government acquisition […]

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The Thermal Control Coatings Protecting InSight’s Marsquake Detector

May 7, 2018

[vc_row type=”full_width_content”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”14559″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_custom_heading text=”An artist’s concept shows the InSight lander, its sensors, cameras and instruments. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ” font_container=”tag:div|font_size:15px|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Robotic Geologist Headed to Mars” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1526428295806{margin-bottom: 2% !important;}”][vc_column_text]NASA successfully launched the InSight lander this month, sending InSight on a half-year journey to reach Mars. It is the first mission to the […]

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Data from Kepler space telescope indicates Earth-like planets are right next door

February 11, 2013

Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found that six percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. Since red dwarfs are the most common stars in our galaxy, the closest Earth-like planet could be just 13 light-years away.

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NuSTAR space telescope utilizes thermal control coating developed by Surface Optics Corp.

July 6, 2012

Launched June 13, 2012, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured it’s first images of a black hole in the high energy X-ray (5 – 80 keV) region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Surface Optics, in cooperation with ManTech International Corporation and it’s subsidiary NeXolve, developed the protective thermal covers in-use on the NuSTAR […]

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