High Performance PAN Camera for Demanding Space Applications
- Paper number
IAC-07-B1.I.16
- Author
Mr. Arie Leizer, Elbit Systems, Electro Optics, ELOP Ltd., Israel
- Year
2007
- Abstract
The advances in both civil and non-civil applications, drives a continuous increase in the performance demands of space cameras. ELOP has designed a high resolution, high coverage, panchromatic space camera. It includes a wide field of view, anastigmatic three mirror telescope (ATMT), a highly stable telescope structure, and a focal plan assembly based on a line scanning TDI detector. The ATMT design allows achieving remarkable optical performance in a wide field of view. The stable telescope design assures high resolution even in extreme environmental conditions and in a variety of orbits. A novel focal plan design allows achieving the most from the theoretical limit of this camera performance.
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