About us
This website and its newsletter are intended to be a monthly (or less) update for those involved in optomechanical engineering, a very interesting niche which overlaps the fields of precision mechanical engineering,
astronomy, photonics, optics, cryogenics, vacuum technologies and of course space engineering. The goal of this newsletter is to facilitate the exchange of information between international optomechanical engineers.
The website was online for a long time as a placeholder but actually only really launched in October 2019. If you registered to the newsletter in the past, you might want to register again as mailchimp our newsletter provider deleted our account one for inactivity.
It is curated by a mechanical engineer based in Europe who has over 13 years of experience as an optomechanical field, both for terrestrial astronomical instruments, large telescope design, and ESA space mission. This website is not run by a corporation as of yet.
Contact
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Correction Policy
We welcome requests for correction or clarification.
At our discretion, we may update the original article, including publicly updating the last-modified date (in schema as 'dateModified’).
We do not explicitly highlight corrections nor retain incorrect text on archived articles.
If it’s a correction we feel we should highlight, we’ll do so in the next available newsletter, hyperlinked to the amended page.
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As an engineer it is your full responsibility to double-check and triple-check any information presented on this website (or any other source of information for that matter), if you're gonna use it in your own designs.