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Infrared Methods For Daylight Acquisition Of Leo Satellites, Joel E. Nelson
Infrared Methods For Daylight Acquisition Of Leo Satellites, Joel E. Nelson
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Raven is an award-winning optical system design paradigm that couples commercially available hardware and software along with custom data analysis and control software to produce low-cost, autonomous, and very capable space surveillance systems. The first product of the Raven program was a family of telescopes capable of generating world-class optical observation data of deep-space satellites. The key to this system was the use of astrometric techniques for position and brightness data. Astrometry compares a satellite to the star background within the sensor field of view; since the position and brightness of the star-field is well known in star catalogs, accurate …