Eoptic, Starris: Optimax Space Systems Team for Imaging Payloads
Eoptic and Starris: Optimax Space Systems have partnered to build end-to-end satellite imaging payloads. The partnership, combining Eoptics' expertise in imaging science and onboard processing and Starris’ expertise in precision optics and scalable manufacturing, will commence work on a first system that will yield a compact, deployable UV multispectral payload. The system will focus on hypersonic missile detection and tracking, combining Eoptic’s Cambrian multispectral technology with the Starris SDA-85 monolithic telescope.
Starris’ SDA-85 monolithic telescope will combine with Eoptic’s Cambrian multispectral imaging platform to form an end-to-end satellite imaging payload. Courtesy of Starris: Optimax Space Systems.
Eoptic’s Cambrian technology enables three imaging sensors to capture synchronized, multispectral and multimodal high-resolution data across UV, visible, and IR wavelengths through a single lens, eliminating parallax errors for precise imaging and onboard processing. This enables compact, cost-effective payloads with enhanced detection of complex phenomena such as hypersonic vehicle shock waves or atmospheric events, supporting rapid deployment in space-based defense and scientific missions.
Starris’ SDA-85 is based on a monolithic-telescope design, with high-quality thermal imaging and radiometry in UV, visible, and IR configurations. The telescope consists of a single piece of ultra high-quality fused silica with primary and secondary surfaces polished on opposite sides of the monolithic glass, ensuring perfect alignment between the surfaces.
For Eoptic, the collaboration comes after it entered into a collaboration with neuromorphic vision systems developer Prophesee earlier this year. The companies aim to integrated high-speed event detection into Eoptic’s prismatic sensor module, combining the Cambrian Edge imaging platform and Prophesee’s event-based Metavision sensors.
Starris, which Optimax launched last summer, previously partnered with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to commercialize LLNL’s monolithic telescope technology, accelerating rapid deployment of modular optical designs for high-resolution or high-sensitivity space imagery.
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