Photography of orbiting satellites

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Feb 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983spfl...25...82p&link_type=abstract

Spaceflight, vol. 25, Feb. 1983, p. 82, 83.

Computer Science

Artificial Satellites, Electro-Optical Photography, Space Surveillance (Ground Based), Deep Space Network, Ground Stations, Skylab Program, Space Shuttles

Scientific paper

U.S. Air Force facilities and uses for ground-based close-up photography of objects in space out to GEO are discussed. The telescopes and cameras have been employed to monitor cosmonaut EVAs around Salyut 6 and in an attempt to assess the tile damage on STS-1. Two classified systems, Teal Amber and Teal Blue, in addition to the five DoD ground-based Electrooptical Deep Space Surveillance stations can detect an approximately one foot diameter object in GEO. The initial Cloudcroft, NM facility, contracted in 1957 to use Baker-Nunn telescopes coupled to an IBM 1800 computer, is described. Uses of the detection systems to monitor a possible Soviet development of an ASAT system, such as installation of antisatellite torpedo tubes on the Salyut space station, are indicated.

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