HMUSA 2022 Conference: Surface Damage Catalog for Contact-Measuring Space Flight Optics using a Coordinate Measuring Machine

About the presentation
Touch-probing optical surfaces with a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) has the potential to replace the complex opto-mechanical alignments of a space flight optical system throughout the integration and test process. Surface damage for these findings has been measured at the single-digit nanometer-levels. We report on the experiments performed and create a catalog capturing the measurement parameters used on each space-qualified substrate and coating.

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Meet your presenter

Joshua Berrier is an optical engineer in the alignment, integration, and test (AI&T) group at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.  He’s served on more than 20 space flight projects such as the James Webb Space Telescope, Roman Space Telescope, and Parker Solar Probe. Currently, he's the AI&T lead for a space-qualified rover lidar which will be the first 3D imaging system of its kind designed to support wheeled vehicles on the lunar, Martian, and other extraterrestrial surfaces. In addition, he’s the lead for the coordinate measuring machine working group at NASA Goddard where he and his team perform state-of-the-art opto-mechanical characterizations, alignments, and integrations for complex space flight hardware.

About the company
For more than 60 years, NASA has worked in space and around the world in laboratories and wind tunnels, on airfields and in control rooms, to explore some of life’s fundamental mysteries: What’s out there in space? How do we get there? And what can we learn that’ll make life better here on Earth? We’re passionate professionals united by a common purpose: to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.