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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | en_US |
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SPIE
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80363 |