MICHIGAN AEROSPACE RECEIVES CONTRACT TO BUILD SECOND-GENERATION OPTIMIZED FABRY-PEROT DOPPLER IMAGER (SOFDI)

Michigan Aerospace recieved a contract from Clemson University, funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to design and build the SOFDI instrument. The SOFDI instrument is based on the highly successful HRDI (High Resolution Doppler Imager) instrument that is presently making measurements aboard the Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS). The SOFDI instrument will be configured as a triple Fabry-Perot etalon system, with two tunable elements, a CCD detector, and a CLIO optic. It will be initially installed in Peru, and will be used to measure a phenomenom known as “Spread-F”.

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Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC) is an advanced engineering and products company that provides innovative remote sensing, intelligent systems and software solutions for space, air, and earth-bound applications. Our roots are in developing atmospheric measurement systems for aerospace customers, but we are also applying these same technologies and expertise to solving problems closer to home, including clean energy, water management, and early stage disease detection.