Boston Micromachines Corporation

Boston Micromachines and NASA have additional projects underway. Boston Micromachines is providing a high-resolution MEMS deformable mirror for a NASA-sponsored space exploration project led by Boston University. The project, Planet Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Rocket Experiment (PICTURE), mission's objective is to obtain a direct image of an extrasolar giant planet. Its telescope, which uses Boston Micromachines' MEMS mirror for wavefront control, will be launched from White Sands, NM, aboard a NASA sounding rocket in early 2007. This will be the first-ever use of a MEMS deformable mirror in space. ( www.bostonmicromachines.com )