Luxel is the preeminent supplier of filters for X-ray and EUV astronomy and has provided critical components for many significant space missions. Luxel collaborates on space astronomy programs either with fixed-price contracts tied to hardware deliveries or by quotation for specific features, such as mission filters and can provide the following services:

  • Determine filter design, if necessary
  • Prototype filters for customer-performed vibration and acoustic testing and transmission measurements
  • Prototype filters for formal qualification tests
  • Flight filters and flight spares
  • Certification of materials and workmanship
  • Witness test filters
  • In-house storage of sample materials, for long-term aging tests, if requested

Luxel’s Filters Perform for Diverse Applications

Each project below is linked for further information.

Skylab Spectroheliograph X-Ray Telescope

Voyager 1 & 2

Atmospheric Explorers (AE)

Lunar Orbiter

Orbiting Solar Observatories


Giotto – European Space Operations

SMM X-Ray Polychromator

Stanford/MSFC Multispectral Solar Telescope Array

YOHKOH/Soft X-ray Telescope

Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE)


ROSAT

(Roentgen Satellite) XUV Wide Field Camera


HRI X-High Resolution Imager


SOHO


Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging


Telescope (EIT)

ALEXISASTRO-D (ASCA)Chandra X-ray Observatory (formerly AXAF)High Resolution Camera (HRC)

CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS)

ASTRO-E & -E2 X-ray Spectrometer (XRS)

SAX

CLUSTER

ORFEUS-SPAS II

Cassini

Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE)

Solar EUV Research Telescope & Spectrograph (SERTS)