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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2021
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO (US);
Elvis Dariel Silva, Arvada, CO (US);
Jeffrey Edward Van Cleve, Longmont, CO (US);
Robert Hadley Philbrick, Erie, CO (US);
Christopher Joseph Grant, Denver, CO (US);
Jacob Daniel Griesbach, Longmont, CO (US);
Michael Patrick Mahoney, Broomfield, CO (US);
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
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° apart from one another. In addition, the spacecraft can be phased 180° 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.