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                          Equinox Provides 
                        a full range of consulting and prototyping services 
                        covering the necessary disciplines for concept definition 
                        through prototype field testing and application. 
                        Engineering staff and techs have extensive 
                        experiences: 
                        
                          - Optical 
                          
 - Mechanical 
                            
                              - Structures and mechanisms
 
                             
                           - Software 
                          
 - Electronics 
                          
 - Controls 
                          
 - Stress & dynamics 
                          
 - Thermal
 
                         
                        
                        
                        Engineering design aids  include: 
                         
                           
                            | -Solid Edge: | 
                            Mechanical 3D models and detail drafting | 
                           
                           
                            | -ASAP: | 
                            Optical models and baffle design | 
                           
                           
                            | -ZEMAX | 
                            Optical layouts and ray tracing | 
                           
                         
                        Engineering design validation and test aids include: 
                         
                           
                            | -Luyten Observatory | 
                            Optical test range | 
                           
                           
                            | -BRO Scatterometer | 
                            Surface characterization | 
                           
                           
                            | -Pinecliffe Works | 
                            Assembly and test area | 
                           
                         
                        
                        Design and development services available in the following 
                          fields: 
                        
                          - Acquisition, tracking and 
                          pointing 
                          
 - Radiometers 
                          
 - Laser communications 
                          
 - Opto-mechanical design 
                          
 - Lens design and optical 
                          system performance analysis 
                          
 - Stray light analysis and 
                          suppression design 
                          
 - Telescope design 
                          
 - Military optics design 
                          
 - Spectroscopy and microscopy 
                          systems design 
                          
 - Star tracker design for 
                          spacecraft attitude control 
                          
 - Light baffle design and 
                          analysis 
                          
 - Video/CCD and low level 
                          instrumentation design 
                          
 - Laser beam scanning system 
                          design 
                          
 - Thermal, stress and loads 
                          analysis 
                          
 - Plating process development 
                          
 - Surface reflection and 
                          scatter measurements 
                          
 - Optical testing and wavefront 
                          analysis 
                          
 - Adaptive optics systems 
                          design 
                          
 - Optical manufacturing 
                          processes 
                          
 - Machine processes for optical systems
 
                         
                        Feel free to contact us to discuss 
                          system applications and needs 
                          WE ARE HERE TO HELP! 
                        Some engineering services customers: 
                        
                          - RDA-Logicon 
                              - Custom mounted telescope for ABL research
 
                             
                           - Pathfinder Systems 
                              - Virtual scene injection 
                            system for VICTOR/US Army 
                              
 - LIDAR system for field 
                            testing of VICTOR/US Army 
                              
 - Recon and countermeasures 
                            concept for BMDO 
                              
 - DIPS system applicable to GLASS TURRET/DARPA
 
                             
                           - Lockheed Martin 
                            
                              - Fire control brassboard 
                            system for SBL/BMDO 
                              
 - Tactical laser 
                            communications for USAF research 
                              
 - Gyro stabilized gimbal concept
 
                             
                           - NASA 
                            
                              - Proposed instrumentation 
                            for the Hummingbird Comet interceptor project 
                              
 - MARS Raptor recon system
 
                             
                           
                         
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