Maui Space Surveillance System Phased Array

摘要

Long baseline Interferometry is a technique where light from two or more telescopes is combined, creating interference fringes. Analysis of the interference fringes allows information to be exacted that has the angular resolution of a telescope with the diameter of the separation of the two telescopes. Since it is currently unfeasible to build telescopes with diameters of hundreds of meters, this is the only method to achieve resolution on the order of micro arcseconds. If interferometry could be applied to space surveillance it would offer the potential for sub-centimeter resolution of low- Earth objects. This report investigates the feasibility of constructing an instrument to observe satellites and of placing that instrument at the Maui Space Surveillance System.