Ian Ritchie (EOS Space Systems)
Keywords: Laser tracking
Abstract:
EOS Space Systems (EOSSS) has designed and manufactured space surveillance imagers since 1999. From early adaptations of Celestron Nexstar tubes to use ICCD sensors, to current EMCCD sensors in custom designed optical assemblies, the company has been required to seek the widest fields possible on a systems small enough to ride on a larger telescope OTA. The latest 14 inch (350mm) variant uses f0.75 corrected optics to achieve real time (2 second) imaging to visual magnitude 16 or fainter, and fields of view up to 3 degrees given the appropriate image plane size. With mass of only 50 kg and up to 1 Mpix 14 bit sampling, this imager has many potential SSA applications.
Date of Conference: September 10-13, 2013
Track: Poster