Goodrich has been a leader in developing state-of-the-art optics and related optical systems and technologies for space-borne applications for the past thirty years. Recent programs dedicated to optics in space include the Advanced Mirror System Demonstrator (AMSD), a program to design, build and demonstrate a figure-controlled (adaptive) mirror system architecture based on a thin, light-weighted facesheet supported through an array of actuators on a stiff, passive reaction structure thermally matched to the facesheet.

Goodrich also manufactured the optics for the Panchromatic Remote-Sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping (PRISM) for an international customer. The PRISM telescope is a space optical system in which Goodrich designed, manufactured, and mounted optical elements in the 3-mirror anastigmat configuration that will fly on the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS).