Goal: Give necessary optics background to tackle a space mission, which includes an optical payload Light .Interaction of light w/environment o Optical design fundamentals Optical performance considerations .Telescope types and CCd design interferometer types
ADCS Motivation Motivation Sensors GPS star trackers. limb In order to point and slew optical sensors rate gy ros. inertial systems, spacecraft attitude control measurement units provides coarse pointing while
Earth Orbiting Clusters Edmund M C Kong SSL Graduate Research Assistant Prof david w. miller Director, MIT Space Systems Lab Space 2001 Conference& Exposition Albuquerque August28-30,2001