In order to dodge something, you need to see it. If that something is space debris then sometimes the best thing to use is an old-fashioned telescope – or, in the case of the US Department of Defense, a state-of-the-art telescope capable of searching an area larger than the United States in seconds. That’s why DARPA is preparing to deliver the new Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) to Western Australia, where it will help track small satellites and space debris orbiting the Earth when it becomes operational in 2016... Continue Reading DARPA ready to deliver telescope to watch the skies for space debris
Section: Space
Tags: Australia, DARPA, Debris, Orbit, Space Junk, Spacecraft, Telescope
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