Space Surveillance Telescope: focus and alignment of a three mirror telescope

The Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) is a three-mirror Mersenne-Schmidt telescope with a 3.5 m primary mirror. It is designed to rapidly scan for space objects, particularly along the geosynchronous belt, approximately 36,000 km above the Earth. The SST has an unusually short focal ratio of F/1.0...

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Main Authors: Woods, Deborah Freedman, Shah, Ronak Y., Johnson, Julie Anne, Szabo, Alexander, Pearce, Eric C., Lambour, Richard L., Faccenda, Walter J.
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: SPIE 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80363