The institution of a robust, comprehensive program of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) necessarily includes observations by ground-based optical and infrared (OIR) telescopes. The Air Force Space Surveillance Telescope (AFSST) has been proposed as a system of telescopes designed to address the ground-based component of comprehensive SSA. A hallmark of our definition of AFSST is that it be composed of inexpensive, replicable telescopes programmed to accomplish multiple surveillance programs, but designed ...
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