manufacturing founded laguna hills california 2008 headquarters springdale arkansas products telescopes spotting scopes binoculars eyepieces and microscopes owner jinghua optical electronics co. slogan keep exploring website www.explorescientificusa.com explore scientific is a company founded by former meade instruments vice president of brand community scott w. roberts in 2008 and owned by chinese manufacturer jinghua optical electronics co. ltd. joc . headquartered in springdale arkansas the company designs and manufactures telescopes spotting scopes binoculars microscopes and other scientific devices . 1 products are manufactured in china by joc and imported . 2 for europe the explore scientific gmbh is responsible for the distribution of these products . 3 contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit during the july 2008 annual astronomical league conference awards banquet in des moines iowa the launch of the company was announced by scott roberts . 4 5 in 2009 explore scientific became the exclusive distributor of bresser products in the united states and throughout the americas . 6 in 2010 jinghua optical electronics co. joc became a partner with roberts and now owns a majority of the company . products edit some of the products produced or distributed by explore scientific include telescopes apochromatic and achromatic refractors and maksutov newtonian eyepieces spotting scopes binoculars microscopes references edit joc website http explorescientificusa.com pages about us about explore scientific retrieved jan 20 2016 http explorescientific.de explore scientific gmbh retrieved jan 20 2016 sky & telescope the astronomical league s rising stars retrieved aug 12 2008 the launch of explore scientific llc is announced at the astronomical league conference alcon explore scientific reaches distribution agreement with bresser retrieved feb 15 2009 external links edit explore scientific website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title explore scientific & oldid 700800615 categories companies based in arkansastelescope manufacturersretail companies of the united statescompanies established in 2008optics manufacturing companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 20 january 2016 at 18 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view