Brandywine Optics Awarded Space Station Contract

University Technology Park, Chester, PA.:
Brandywine Optics announced it was awarded the contract to build the Hyperspectral Imager for Coastal Oceans (HICO) camera to be flown on- board the International Space Station, by the US Naval Research Laboratory. The payload will be integrated into Japanese Experiment Module, and is planned for launch in July, 2009.

Brandywine Optics speciallizes in manufacturing aerial cameras for environmental monitoring and national defense. Brandywine Optics is a manufacturer of imaging spectrometers used in environmental mapping, homeland defense, biomedical imaging, and industrial inspection, also known as hyperspectral imaging. Installed in aircraft, microscopes, or on the factory floor, Brandywines instruments use the full color spectrum of a large scene to discriminate between different background materials and target substances.