Threat Detection
Credit: U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) and Air Force want to deploy wide-angle digital telescopes to monitor the 100,000-plus objects of orbiting debris larger than 1 cm (0.4 in.), which could damage satellites. The telescopes, in development, will use sensitive imaging chips...
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