Materion Celebrates Webb Success
July 13 2022 - 9:05AM
Business Wire
Advanced Materials and Engineering
Innovations Power Advanced Space Telescope
Materion Corporation (NYSE: MTRN), a world leader in high
performing advanced materials, today celebrates the release of the
first full-color images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope,
a project on which the company collaborated with NASA for more than
a decade before its launch on December 25, 2021.
The images from deep space are made possible by NIRCam imaging
technology, one of multiple instrument modes for scientific
observation. Materion developed new bands for the NIRCam
instrument, filters for the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless
Spectrograph, and NIRCam coronographic occulting masks that block
out things that do not need to be seen. Combined, these
technologies enable observations ranging from our own solar system
to the most distant galaxies. Materion also delivered optical
filters for the NIRspec instrument on board.
In addition, NASA selected beryllium for the primary telescope
mirror in 2003 with Materion supplying the 18 all-beryllium mirror
segments over a three-year period to NASA suppliers who completed
the fabrication and polishing process.
“Beryllium is very lightweight, a third lighter than aluminum,
extremely stiff and can be polished very well. It also functions
well at cryogenic temperatures which made it the perfect material
for the telescope,” said Keith Smith, vice president – Nuclear and
Science, Materion. “The telescope features a special grade of gas
atomized beryllium which is lightweight and has the properties
needed for the telescope’s primary mirror.”
Materion’s beryllium is also used for the telescope’s secondary
and tertiary mirrors and support structures for the primary
mirrors. While the mirrors are the main showpiece, Materion also
supplied highly engineered metals to help manufacture the
energy-producing solar panels on the Webb that helps power the
system by converting sunlight into electrical energy.
About Materion
Materion Corporation is headquartered in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
Materion, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, supplies highly
engineered advanced enabling materials to global markets. Products
include precious and non-precious specialty metals, inorganic
chemicals and powders, specialty coatings, specialty engineered
beryllium alloys, beryllium and beryllium composites, and
engineered clad and plated metal systems.
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