Our Gratings in Space

More than 50 successful space missions

HORIBA Scientific designs, manufactures and tests a large range of scientific diffraction gratings for Lasers and space flight applications. HORIBA Scientific has been selected and has participated in a large number of NASA or ESA space-flight missions due to its long-standing reputation in developing very high performances diffraction gratings for spectrographs.

JUNO

The Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) and Jupiter InfraRed Aural Mapper (JIRAM) instruments aboard JUNO, the NASA space probe for Jupiter exploration, are equipped with HORIBA Jobin Yvon gratings

SENTINEL-3A

The key optical component of the OLCI instrument, a medium-resolution imaging spectrometer, is a concave holographic grating manufactured by HORIBA Jobin Yvon

SENTINEL-5P

The TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI), on board of the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite, is equipped with gratings from HORIBA Jobin Yvon

ROSETTA

ESA’s comet-chasing mission Rosetta embarks the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer – ALICE instrument, equipped with a HORIBA Jobin Yvon diffraction grating

IRIS

The telescope door of NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is equipped with HORIBA Jobin Yvon diffraction gratings

NEW HORIZONS

The ALICE spectrograph, on board of NASA's New Horizons probe, is equipped with a HORIBA Jobin Yvon diffraction grating

BEPICOLOMBO

The PHEBUS FUV-EUV spectrometer and the SIMBIO-SYS VIHI instrument, on board of ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), are equipped with HORIBA Jobin Yvon diffraction gratings