Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

Robert Hadley Philbrick

David A Dorn

Christopher Lynn Mears

Alex Harwit

Jeffrey Edward Van Cleve

Jacob Daniel Griesbach

Michael Patrick Mahoney

Theresa J Axenson

Elvis Dariel Silva

Morley M Blouke

Christopher Joseph Grant

Systems and methods for obtaining images of a lunar surface and cislunar space using a hybrid telescope are provided. One hybrid telescope is carried by each of two spacecraft. Each spacecraft is in an elliptical orbit about the Moon. The periapsides of the spacecraft orbits are 180&#xb0; apart from one another. In addition, the spacecraft can be phased 180&#xb0; apart from one another to enable an offset in access times of each telescope to the cislunar and surface domains respectively. The image sensors associated with the telescopes can include a staring mode for collecting images from cislunar space, and a scanning mode for collecting images from the lunar surface.

Systems and methods for hybrid lunar surface and space domain situational awareness

The present invention relates to imaging systems that generally include at least a first substrate, on which a charge coupled device imaging sensor array is formed, and a second substrate on which readout circuitry is formed. Information related to the amount of light incident on pixels included in the imaging sensor array is passed to the readout circuitry as a voltage signal over an interconnection between the imaging sensor array and the readout circuitry. Accordingly, the readout circuitry may sample the output of the imaging sensor array multiple times. The system allows different processes to be used for forming the imaging sensor array and the readout circuitry, while also supporting multiple samples of information provided by the imaging sensor array.

Hybrid imager

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Erie, CO, United States of America

Robert Hadley Philbrick