Even as it won a contract to design satellite test facilities, Hingham-based Dynavac, a market leader in precision optical coating systems, has been forced to lay off 10 percent of its workforce.
CEO Thomas Foley said Dynavac laid off six people this month due to the sluggish economy. But Foley said he was optimistic that the company would rebound, noting that it recently was awarded a contract by the Australian National University to design satellite test facilities.
"I think the economy will improve and the business will improve," he said. "We have a very dynamic workforce with an interesting combination of engineering and manufacturing capability."
Dynavac designed and made the optical coating system for the Discovery Channel Telescope — the fifth largest optical telescope in the continental United States — at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.
The company, which was founded in 1984, used aluminum to give the telescope's giant mirrors their reflective coating, allowing astronomers to collect light from faint and distant objects.
"Without the reflective coating, the mirrors are simply semi-transparent pieces of glass," said Jeffrey Hall, the observatory's director. "It's a critical component that helps us to explore aspects of the universe that we hope will one day answer some of humanity's oldest questions: Where did we come from? Is there life elsewhere?"
Dynavac also built a low-pressure, low-temperature chamber simulating the conditions of outer space to test the infrared James Webb Space Telescope, which will be launched into space in 2018 to study every phase in the history of our universe, from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, to the evolution of our own solar system.
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