DARPA Space Surveillance Telescope

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Technologie - Général
Wednesday, 27 April 2011 00:17

The new telescope DARPA Space Surveillance, keep our satellites safe from interstellar debris.

The engineers at DARPA , MIT and the U.S. Air Force, have developed a new telescope of 75 million euros has been under construction for nine years. The new Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) is able to offer great views of the sky angle of the Earth.

The telescope's main task will be to monitor any microsatellite, meteorite or other object that moves at the same speed at which the Earth rotates and pose a hazard to satellites or is in collision course with Earth.


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