USAF installing adaptive optics on Maui to image space objects

A $40 million adaptive optics system being installed at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Maui Space Surveillance Complex in Hawaii is expected to produce images of orbiting space objects of unprecedented clarity, AFRL reported last week. The 20-element optical bench was shipped from...

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