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Advanced Electro-Optical System [AEOS]

OBJECTIVE

Develop World Class Telescope on Mount Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii

Largest USAF optical Space Tracking Facility

CAPABILITIES

Telescope

3.67-meter thin meniscus primary mirror

Satellite tracking (17 degees/minute)

Replaceable secondary mirror for alternative applications

Field of View is 1 milliradian on telescope, 300 micro radian in coude' labs

Support Facility

Security segregation for shared use

16-meter pier for turbulent boundary layer control

Pier sized to support 8-meter telescope growth capability

Seven coude' labs

Thermal management is key design objective:

-Extensive insulation

-Minimize thermal pollution

-Collapsible dome

Adaptive optics

Compensated imaging in all coude' labs

-l0 centimeter resolution for 400 kilometer satellite

Mount Control

Minimal manning,

Cooperative with Maui Space Surveillance Site

MISSION:

Space surveillance contributing sensor --

-Supports United States Space Command's

-Space object Identification Statement of Need, 14-89I

Atmospheric science -- military and environmental missions

Astronomy -- University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy

SCHEDULE:

First light by calendar year 1996

CONTRIBUTING CONTRACTORS

         
Telescope & Mount          Contraves USA
         
Facility                   To be determined
         
Adaptive optics                    To be determined,RFP--Dec 93
         
Controls                   In-house effort
         
Systems Engineering                S Systems Corporation
         
Maui Space Surveillance
         
Site Integration           Rockwell Power Systems
         

MANAGING AGENCY

Lasers & Imaging Directorate

Air Force Phillips Laboratory

Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico

RESOURCES

• Advanced Electro-Optical System Fact Sheet
• FY98 Budget 0603605F Advanced Weapons Technology
• FY98 Budget 0305910F Spacetrack (Space)

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