- Affiliation
- National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (Public Organization)
- Role in team
- Mechanical engineer
- Since
- 2025
Tarathon Intaros is a mechanical engineer at the SPDT Engineering, Assembly, and Laser Metrology Laboratory (SEAL Lab), NARIT, specializing in ultra-precision manufacturing for astronomical optics. His work integrates mechanical design, FEA simulation, surface metrology, and experimental testing to advance local space-instrumentation capabilities.
Projects
SPDT Engineering, Assembly, and Laser Metrology Laboratory
Thailand's first ultra-precision reflective-surface laboratory: 5-axis single-point diamond turning, surface metrology, and a complete design-to-metrology production line for metallic and freeform optics.
DARTS alignment and slit-viewing mirrors
Diamond-turned slit-viewing mirrors and slit masks for DARTS, the robotic transient spectrograph NARIT is building for Lick Observatory.
Additively manufactured mirrors for space missions with UK ATC
Can we 3D-print a mirror? Diamond turning and testing of additively manufactured aluminum mirror substrates for space missions, with the UK Astronomy Technology Centre.
Mirrors for the TSC 6U CubeSat telescope
Primary and secondary mirrors, machined in-house by diamond turning, for the Thai Space Consortium's 3U and 6U CubeSat space telescopes.
Freeform Zerodur mirrors for ELT/HARMONI
Proposed upgrade of the diamond-turning line to 700 mm and to low-expansion glass (Zerodur, ULE, fused silica), with Oxford's HARMONI team and ESO, aimed at ELT-class freeform optics.