Latest News

We are pleased to announce that HartSCI’s President, Dr. Michael Hart, will once again be presenting the short course in Adaptive Optics at the SPIE Optics + Photonics conference in San Diego on August 3. Taught by one of the world’s leading experts in the field, this...

Jacob Lopez, a recent graduate from Sahuaro High School in Tucson, Arizona, has joined the team at Hart Scientific Consulting International, better known as HartSCI, as an engineering intern. He came to this position through the Career and Technical Education program...

HartSCI is excited to announce that we have joined the Space Systems MOSA Interface Standards Alliance to develop the next-generation standards for Optical Ground-to-Space Communications interfaces and protocols. This committee will recommend, tailor, and develop...

Our President and Founder, Dr. Michael Hart, gave a talk at the Arizona Photonics Days conference, discussing the state of the art in commercialized Adaptive Optics technology and HartSCI’s leadership in that market.

Thanks to the Optics Valley group for the opportunity to discuss the state of commercialized Adaptive Optics for Space Domain Awareness and laser communications applications!

HartSCI is pleased to announce that the company is contracted to deliver adaptive optics technology to a customer in support of ground-to-space laser communications. Space systems currently form the backbone of worldwide communications networks, both civilian and...

We’re excited to announce that HartSCI has outgrown our present facility and we’re moving to new larger premises effective June 11 2024! We’re staying in our beloved Tucson but our new address will be: 4565 S. Palo Verde Road, Suite 203 Tucson, AZ 85714 The expansion...

HartSCI, in partnership with the University of New Mexico, has been awarded a $1.25M contract, FA9451-24-C-X003, from the Air Force Research Laboratory to advance novel technology in the lasers used to make guide beacons for adaptive optics (AO). Advanced laser-guided...

HartSCI’s President Dr. Michael Hart presented the short course on Adaptive Optics and Wave Propagation through Random Media at the SPIE meeting on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation in Yokohama, Japan. This full-day course was offered on Sunday, June 16, at...

HartSCI attended the International Workshop on Adaptive Optics For Industry and Medicine, AOIM2024, conference in Padua, Italy March 12 – 15, 2024. Dr. Michael Hart briefed the group on the capabilities of our adaptive optics systems. During his briefing he also ran a...

The HartSCI team deployed a custom variation of our ClearStar AO+ system last week, this time to the NPOI site in Northern Arizona. It is installed on a PlaneWave CDK1000. The weather did not cooperate, but the Lowell Observatory, NPOI and HartSCI team prevailed!

HartSCI attended the 2022 AMOS Technologies Conference, Sept. 27-30 in Maui, HI. Dr. Michael Hart gave a talk at the conference on the new paradigm in adaptive optics offered by the introduction of HartSCI’s ClearStar™ AO system. Additionally, HartSCI and PlaneWave...

HartSCI attended the 2022 SPIE Telescopes and Instrumentation conference in Montreal, CA July 19 – 21, 2022. We shared a booth with Planewave Instruments in order to announce the new ClearStar AO system for commercial sale this fall. The reaction was overwhelmingly...

HartSCI is pleased to announce our selection and award of a new contract under the Air Force’s AFWERX TACFI program. The AFWERX MISSION is to accelerate agile and affordable capability transitions by teaming innovative technology developers with Airman and Guardian...

PlaneWave Instruments and Hart Scientific Consulting International (HartSCI) have announced their new partnership to offer the world’s first commercially pre-integrated adaptive optics solution. PlaneWave Instruments manufactures world-class telescopes and observatory...

Written by Stephen Warner on September 24, 2017. HartSCI saw great success at this years Advanced Maui Optical Space Surveillance Technologies Conference (AMOS). Several of its team members gave talks and poster presentations and produced four separately published...