A High-Altitude, Station-Keeping Astronomical Platform

Details A High-Altitude, Station-Keeping Astronomical Platform A High-Altitude, Station-Keeping Astronomical Platform

2006-06-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606383v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 10 figures. To appear in Proc. SPIE 6267, "Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes", 2006 May 24-31, Orlando, Florida U

Scientific paper

10.1117/12.673615

Several commercial telecommunication ventures together with a well funded US military program make it a likely possibility that an autonomous, high-altitude, light-than-air (LTA) vehicle which could maneuver and station-keep for weeks to many months will be a reality in a few years. Here I outline how this technology could be used to develop a high-altitude astronomical observing platform which could return high-resolution optical data rivaling those from space-based platforms but at a fraction of the cost.

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