SDL has state-of-the-art capabilities for the design, fabrication, and validation of contamination-sensitive space hardware. With a full-time staff of chemists, optical engineers, and material scientists with extensive experience in contamination control and analysis, SDL offers a full range of services including stray light analysis and modeling, vacuum bakeout, material screening/selection, measurement of outgassing and deposition kinetics, particulate count, and spectral reflectivity measurements.

Contamination control facilities include:

A precision cleaning laboratory
Class-100 cleanrooms
A class-10,000 integration high bay
Portable class-100 clean tents
A 100-foot long class-100 optical cleanroom (pictured)
An off-axis optical scatter facility
Thermogravimetric analyzer and ASTM 1559 facility
Quartz crystal microbalances
Mass spectrometers
Bi-directional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) measurement stations