Hubble's Industrial and Academic Partners
Hubble's success springs from a collaboration between NASA and its industrial partners, who bring their innovation, creativity, and expertise to the telescope's past construction and current operations.
Hubble was designed and built through partnerships with companies and universities throughout the United States and around the globe. NASA’s industrial and academic partners bring cutting-edge and cost-effective technologies to help create, operate, and strengthen the telescope, granting it more than three decades of unparalleled space exploration. Below are many of the partners who have worked with NASA on hardware design, fabrication, integration and testing, spacecraft operations, information technology, and more.
| US Industrial/Academic Partners | ||
|---|---|---|
| AASC | Frequency Elect. | Orbital Science Corporation |
| ACI Electronics Corporation | Fry Steel | Pacific Coast Technology |
| Advanced Circuit Technologies | GDIT (CSRA) | Penn Camera |
| Alatec Products | General Dynamics | Peraton |
| Alliant Techsystems, Inc | Genesis Engineering Co., LLC | Perkin-Elmer |
| AlliedSignal | Global Science & Technology | Photo Chemical |
| Almag Plating | Goodrich Corporation | PNE |
| AMP Inc. | Hardware Specialty Co. | Raytheon |
| Apnet | Harris | Research Devices, Inc. |
| Arrow Zeus Electronics | Helicoflex Co. | Research Electro Optics |
| Associated Spring | Hernandez | Robert C. Byrd Institute |
| Astrium GMBH | HISCO | Rockwell Science Center |
| Astrium Ltd. | Honeywell Technical Solutions | SAES Getters |
| Astro Instrument Corporation | Hypertronics Corporation | SAFT America, Inc. |
| Atlantic Science and Technology | IBM | Samson Metals |
| AURA | Indium Corp of America | Schaeffer |
| Aviation Equipment | Industrial Retaining Ring | Schoenstadt |
| Avnet Inc. | Interface Welding | Sea Wire & Cable |
| BAE Systems | ISI | SGT |
| Barden Precision | Ithaco | Sheldahl Co. |
| Barr Associates, Inc. | Jackson & Tull | Sherburn Electric Corporation |
| BD Systems | Jobin Yvon-Spex | Southwest Products Company |
| Bechdon | Johns Hopkins University | Spacecraft System Engineering Services |
| BEI Sensors and Systems Company | Kaydon Custom Bearings | Space Systems Integration |
| Bendix | KBRWyle | Specialty Manufacturing |
| Boeing | Kenig Aerospace | Spectrum Laser |
| Bradley Enterprises | K R ANDERSON | Sperry |
| Brush Wellman | Kyocera America, Inc | Stern and Stern |
| C-S Metals | L3 | SUMATECH |
| Caltech | Lake Shore Cryotronics | Surmet |
| Cannan | Lentech | SVG Tinsley Laboratories |
| Capstone Electronics | Litchfield Precision | Swales Aerospace |
| Castrol Inc. | Lockheed Martin | TFE |
| CDA Intercorp | Lockwood Software | Tifco-Spline |
| Ceramic to Metal Seals | LSEI | Titanium Industries |
| CES | M&D Machine | Tomas & Betts |
| Clement Engineering | ManTech | TOPER Manufacturing |
| Climax Specialty Metals | Marconi Applied Technologies | Toshiba America |
| Coastal Optical Systems | Marlow Industries | Total Plastics |
| Copper & Brass Sales | Martin Marietta Corporation | Transco |
| Courtaulds Performance Films | Maryland QC | TTI, Inc. |
| CSA Engineering, Inc. | Max Levy & Associates | TW METALS |
| Computer Sciences Corporation | Maxwell Technologies | Tyco Engineered Systems |
| Cubic | McMaster Carr | Unisys |
| CYTEC-FIBERITE | Mega | United Supertek, Inc. |
| Denton Vacuum, Inc. | Melles Griot | University of Arizona |
| Dornier | Minco Products, Inc. | University of California |
| DWA | Motorola | University of Colorado Boulder |
| E.V. Roberts | Nanonics Corporation | University of Texas |
| Eagle Picher | NuSil Technology | University of Wisconsin |
| Eagle Precision | Oceaneering Space Systems | USA |
| EER | Odetics | Vantage Systems |
| Electromagnetic | Oerlikon Contraves AG | Washington Valve |
| Energy Solutions International, LLC | Omitron | Wavecom |
| Epner Technology | Omnetics | Wolcott Park |
| Fairchild | Optical Filter Corporation | Yellow Springs Instruments |
| Fastener Depot | Optical Research Associates | Zeus West |
Green indicates the locations of industrial and academic partners who have contributed to the Hubble Space Telescope
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Hubble is the product of many hands, a true team effort in which a wide array of people around the country worked together to create one of humanity's most transformative and impactful observatories. Below are the Hubble components and the companies and institutions who built them at launch.
| Hubble Component | Industrial/Academic Partners | Hubble Component | Industrial/Academic Partners |
|---|---|---|---|
| Actuator Control Electronics | Perkin-Elmer | Optical Telescope Assembly | Perkin-Elmer |
| Aft Latch, Solar Array | LMSC | Optical Control Electronics | Perkin-Elmer |
| Antenna Pointing System | Sperry | Oscillator | Frequency Electronics |
| Battery | Eagle Picher/GE | Photomultiplier Tube Electronics | Perkin-Elmer |
| Charge Current Controller | LMSC | Pointing Safemode Electronics Assembly | Bendix |
| Circulator Switch | Electromagnetic | Power Control Unit | LMSC |
| Coarse Sun Sensor | LMSC | Power Distribution Unit | LMSC |
| Computer | Rockwell Autonetics | Primary Deployment Mechanism | ESA |
| Data Interface Unit | LMSC | Primary Mirror Assembly | Perkin-Elmer |
| Data Management Unit | LMSC | RF Multiplexer | Wavecom |
| Deployment Control Electronics | ESA | RF Switch | Transco |
| Dish and Feed for HGA | GE | RF Transfer Switch | Transco |
| Elec. Power/Thermal Control Elect. | Perkin-Elmer | Rate Gyro Assembly | Bendix |
| FHST Light Shade | Bendix | Reaction Wheel Assembly | Sperry |
| Faint Object Camera | Dornier | Retrieval Mode Assembly | Northrop/Bendix |
| Faint Object Spectrograph | Martin Marietta Corporation | Rotary Drive | Schaeffer |
| Fine Guidance Electronics | Harris | SAD Adapter | ESA |
| Fine Guidance Sensor | Perkin-Elmer | SI C&DH | Fairchild/IBM |
| Fixed Head Star Tracker | Ball/Bendix | SSA Transmitter | Odetics |
| Focal Plane Assembly | Perkin-Elmer | Secondary Deployment Mechanism | ESA |
| Forward Latch, Solar Array | LMSC | Secondary Mirror Assembly | Perkin-Elmer |
| Image Dissector Camera Assembly | Perkin-Elmer | Sensor Electronics Assembly | Perkin-Elmer |
| Instrument Control Unit | LMSC | Solar Array Blanket | ESA |
| Interconnect Cables | LMSC/Perkin-Elmer et al. | Solar Array Drive | ESA |
| Latch, Aperture Door | LMSC | Solar Array Drive Electronics | ESA |
| Latch, High Gain Antenna | LMSC | Star Selector Servo | BEI |
| Low Gain Antenna | LMSC | Temperature Sensor | LMSC/Perkin-Elmer |
| MA Transponder | Motorola | Thermostat/Heater | LMSC/Perkin-Elmer |
| Magnetic Torquer | Ithaco/Bendix | Umbilical Drive Unit | Sperry |
| Magnetic Sensing System | Schoenstadt/Bendix | Waveguide | LMSC |
| Mechanism Control Unit | LMSC | Wide Field Planetary Camera | JPL |
| Metal Matrix Mast | DWA/LMSC | ||
| Multilayer Insulation | LMSC/Perkin-Elmer | ||
| Off Load Device | ESA | ||
| LMSC=Lockheed Missile and Space Company |
