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 ...
The extreme spread, or greatest distance between all pairs of points on a target, is often used as a rapid measure of dispersion or precision of shot groups on a target. It is therefore desirable to know its statistical properties. Since the exact theoretical distribution has not yet been worked out, this report examines the accuracy of several approximations which are checked against large sample Monte Carlo values.
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