Research Support Technology

For over two decades, RSI has provided a broad spectrum of experience to our customers in very diverse fields of interest. They include:

Satellite support, including Satellite Mission Development, Concept Definition, Feasibility Studies, Experiment Planning, Flight Operations, Flight Calibration, and Data Analysis

Field tests including high altitude balloon, small aircraft, and airship imaging experiments.

Instrument design including multi-spectral, hyper-spectral, UV Spectrometers, Laser Rangefinders, Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) systems, Frequency agile chemical sensing, imaging receiver - wing platform (AF), NASA Fire sensor,

Bio-agent standoff Lidar, Quantum, Cascade DIAL for chemical detection, Custom Optic design, Very fast IR lenses (<F/1), Cryogenic operation, and Imaging Technology Development –RIT LAVA CMOS Arrays.

Instrument Testing & Calibration, including Radiometric Testing, Optical Alignment, and NIST traceable Sensor Calibration.

Advanced Image Processing including: multi-frame processing, blind deconvolution, image registration, video stabilization, and multi-spectral processing.

Space Propulsion, including Microwave Electrothermal (MET) Thruster, Nanopropulsion , and Compact Fusion.

Microtechnologies: the MASS noise-cancelling microspeaker array, the EMP fiber-optic pressure sensor for hypersonic flight, microscale magnetic structures for actuators and charged particle optics, the MIRROR micro-retroreflector array for marking and communications, electron beam windows, the M2-EMS compact energy-mass spectrograph for charged particle detection in orbit as well as gas sensing on the ground, and enhanced carbon nanotubes for filtration

Plasma technologies: the MET microwave electric thruster for spacecraft, a system for microwave augmentation of supersonic combustors, a microwave plasma aerodynamic control system, the MIRAGE ionosphere modification system, the CMTX magnetized target fusion plasma source, the Rotational-Vibrational Spectral Analysis System for plasma monitoring, and plasma polishing of inorganics to improve mechanical performance.

Microfabrication capabilities: High aspect and suspended microstructures including magnets, actuators, optics and sensors. Standard metallization, photolithography, and etching.