ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Artemis II crew captured pictures from the far side of the moon through windows made in New York and polished by a Rochester optics company.
The windows on the Orion spacecraft are made of Corning Fused Silica glass and were polished at Sydor Optics in Chili.
“My grandfather started the business in 1964, he was a Kodak employee and just decided to start making optics on his own,” Matthew Sydor, President of Sydor Optics tells News10NBC.
Sydor Optics now has more than 100 local employees specializing in precision flat optical components. “We deal with everything from consumer electronics so AR and VR glasses, we’ve worked with IMAX so, a lot of our optics are in IMAX projectors when you see a 3D movie,” Sydor explains. The company polishes glass pieces that go into energy, health care, defense, and space components.
“We’ve worked with a couple different NASA flight centers across the country, usually small projects,” Sydor explains. One of which includes pieces of glass that are currently in space. “They got coated with a silver coating and are used as mirrors on satellites to transmit signals and deflect signals,” Sydor says.
But that’s small compared to the work they did for the Artemis II mission. All the windows in the Orion spacecraft were refined and polished at Sydor.
Everything the astronauts are seeing and all of the photos they’re capturing to share with the world have been through those windows. It was quite a process to get them ready for liftoff. “We had weekly meetings to talk about every process step, everything was documented so, it was a higher attention level than a regular job,” Sydor explains.
The precision had to be perfect which required some high-tech equipment that Sydor has. “Our machines will measure the high spots or the low spots in the glass and then automatically correct it,” Sydor says.
The windows not only allow all of us to see what’s beyond Earth but also keep the spacecraft and the astronauts inside safe. “Just to see the earth from so far away and to have the entire planet also looking through those windows, to know that they came from Sydor Optics was a pretty proud moment,” Sydor says. “For all of us in Rochester, for everybody that worked on them, we have MCC students here who have worked on them, it was just a really proud moment.”
The partnership with NASA doesn’t end when Artemis II returns to Earth on Friday. Sydor Optics will also be handling the window polishing for Artemis III which is tentatively planned for 2027 and should put astronauts on the moon.
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