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3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope

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The 3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope is a Department of Defense telescope at Haleakala Observatory. The telescope is part of the Maui Space Surveillance Complex (MSSC), which in turn is part of the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing Site (AMOS).

3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope
Alternative namesAdvanced Electro-Optical System Edit this at Wikidata
Part ofMaui Space Surveillance Complex Edit this on Wikidata
Location(s)Haleakalā Observatory, Haleakalā, Maui County, Hawaii
Coordinates20°42′30″N 156°15′25″W / 20.7082°N 156.257°W / 20.7082; -156.257 Edit this at Wikidata
OrganizationAir Force Research Laboratory Edit this on Wikidata
Telescope styleoptical telescope Edit this on Wikidata
Diameter3.67 m (12 ft 0 in) Edit this at Wikidata
3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope is located in Hawaii
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The 3.67-meter telescope, known as the Advanced Electro-Optical System (AEOS), owned by the Department of Defense, is the United States' largest optical telescope designed for tracking satellites. The 75-ton AEOS telescope points and tracks very accurately, yet is fast enough to track both low-Earth satellites and ballistic missiles. It can slew at nearly 20 degrees per second.[1] It is an f/200 and has an extremely narrow field of view.[2] AEOS can be used simultaneously by many groups or institutions because its light can be channeled through a series of mirrors to seven independent Coudé focus rooms below the telescope. Employing sophisticated sensors that include an adaptive optics system, radiometer, spectrograph, and long-wave infrared imager, the telescope tracks man-made objects in deep space and performs space object identification data collection.

AEOS is equipped with an adaptive optics system, the heart of which is a 941-actuator deformable mirror that can change its shape to remove the atmosphere's distorting effects. Scientists are expected to get near diffraction-limited images of space objects.

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  1. ^ "RCOS: 24 inch Carbon Tube Telescope".
  2. ^ "RCOS: 24 inch Carbon Tube Telescope".
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