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Leaders in global
precision optics
KiwiStar Optics designs, manufactures, and installs everything from one off components to complete optical systems.
KiwiStar Optics crafts the precision optics that are unlocking the universe at leading observatories. Helping astronomers capture and split starlight for over 50 years. We’ve made some of the planet’s biggest lenses for its best telescopes. Our reputation as a global leader in precision optics is built on consistent excellence and innovation.
What we do
Trusted by the world's best observatories
Large Precision
Optics
Spectrograph
Solutions
Astronomical
Instruments
Capabilities
Excellence
and Innovation
We love a challenge. We expect to evolve and invent with you. We know that great results depend on great communication, every step of the way. Our reputation as a global leader in precision optics is built on consistent excellence and innovation.
Our scientists, engineers and master opticians draw on decades of experience and a love of what they do.
Design
Integration
Manufacture
Experience
Case Studies
The Thirty Meter telescope
KiwiStar Optics successfully delivered on a ground-breaking and demanding project to manufacture, polish, and test the largest optical component ever produced in Australasia.
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project is a joint venture between scientific institutions in Canada, China, India, Japan and the US to build a 30m diameter Ritchey-Chretien optical infrared telescope.
In the press
Precision Optics News
Victoria University degree in Space Science, a world first
By Anthony Young, CapitalNZ News Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington will become the first university in New Zealand to offer Space Science as an undergraduate major, fuelled by increasing interest in a growing national space industry. A focus on ‘near space’ makes it unique internationally. Dr Tulasi …
KiwiStar Optics Exhibits at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022
After two years of COVID-19 restrictions, a team from KiwiStar Optics – Dr Andrew Rakich, myself and Dave Cochrane (pictured above) – took to the skies and headed to SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022 the symposium in Montreal, Canada. This prestigious event, which has the aim of advancing the field of astronomical engineering, attracts …
EOS acquires precision optics provider KiwiStar Optics
Electro Optic Systems Holdings Limited (EOS) has entered into an agreement with Callaghan Innovation to acquire the assets and hire the personnel of KiwiStar Optics (KSO). Announcing the agreement, Craig Smith, Chief Technology Officer of EOS said, “KiwiStar Optics is a unique global capability and a vital supplier to EOS. As Australian’s largest space …
Victoria University degree in Space Science, a world first
By Anthony Young, CapitalNZ News Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington will become the first university in New Zealand to offer Space Science as an undergraduate major, fuelled by increasing interest in a growing national space industry. A focus on ‘near space’ makes it unique internationally. Dr Tulasi …
KiwiStar Optics Exhibits at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022
After two years of COVID-19 restrictions, a team from KiwiStar Optics – Dr Andrew Rakich, myself and Dave Cochrane (pictured above) – took to the skies and headed to SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022 the symposium in Montreal, Canada. This prestigious event, which has the aim of advancing the field of astronomical engineering, attracts …