As it turns out, it is a year back to the day that the website was updated. This was not because nothing happened, on the contrary. A lot has happened between the last post and this one. After achieving full ESA qualification a number of significant orders for the BiSon64-ET-B have been received and we have been scaling up production considerably. This scaling up effort has run in parallel to a full redecoration of the office and upgrades of the cleanroom. The Cleanroom now holds some additional items like a special cleanroom oven with integrated HEPA filter that has been [...]

Starting on 9th of March with the final assembly steps and finishing on 31st of March with the final calibrations and associated accuracy change evaluation, Lens R&D has completed a full ECSS-E-ST-10-03 environmental ESA qualification in a record pace. Although the financial consequences of a listing in the Guiness Book of records prevents a formal registration of this record, we are sure that this is a record that will not be broken for some time (if ever). As a team we would like to express our gratitude to the staff at the ESA ESTEC MSL laboratory and involved people at [...]

Lens R&D celebrated its 10 year anniversary on April first!