DARPA seeks to develop optics for space- based video surveillance system

摘要

Astronomers at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., plan to develop a large, diffractive optics membrane and communications equipment for a geosynchronous orbit-based telescope, which is to be part of a space-based video surveillance system.rnThe program is called Membrane Optic Imager Real-time Exploitation (MOIRE), for which DARPA officials say they will issue a broad agency announcement (BAA) soon.rnThe MOIRE program seeks to provide persistent, real-time, tactical video to the warfighter. Developing diffractive membrane optics could help pave the way to low-cost geosynchronous imaging, DARPA scientists believe.