Sunday, August 8, 2021

Telescope Battery for Mission Tracking

Telescope Battery for Mission Tracking

Humanoido has implemented a battery of tracking telescopes for upcoming space missions

Tracking telescopes include a wide range of apertures from about 3-inches up to a 14-inch catadioptric. Additional telescopes in the enhanced megalithic range include 925-inch and 1,400-inch aperture telescopes.

Styles include refractors, reflectors, schmidt cassegrains, and catadioptrics. Optical tracking telescopes are powerful enough to provide imagery on the spacecraft from launch to the entrance into deep space. Included are cameras and special mounts for guiding on spacecraft. There are roughly 20 telescopes total in the tracking battery.

Located on the far side of the Earth in the Asian Arena mid range to the equator, the tracking battery of telescopes look out over the Pacific Ocean where missions are launched, as seen in this globe map. Tracking telescopes have a wide spectroscopic range from the ultraviolet to deep infrared heat signatures.