George Fraser, University of Leicester, PI for the MIXS experiment on BepiColombo

“We have overcome many technical challenges on MIXS, but the hardest by far was the coating of gold onto titanium – vital for the thermal performance of the X-ray optics in their eventual orbit around Mercury. Several UK-based contractors tried and failed; sober advisors said the coating might not even be possible – but Epner Technology has delivered the complex gold-on-titanium structures that we needed.”

– George Fraser, University of Leicester, PI for the MIXS experiment on BepiColombo