There’s a status report on the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan- STARRS) and studies analyzing factors and consequences of the February 2009 collision of the Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 satellites. A team with the Air Force...
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Mark your calendars to attend the 11th annual AMOS Conference
Aloha! Mark your calendars to attend the 11th annual Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference on September 14-17, 2010 at the Wailea Beach Marriott Resort in Maui, Hawaii. The conference series aims to provide a...
Proving a technique
AMOS presentation analyzes capabilities of image sampling methodology Air Force astrophysicist Capt. Anthony O'Dell may be offering new life to a decades-old image sampling theory for detection of Near Earth Objects by ground-based telescopes....
Scanning the skies for NEOs
Pan-STARRS initial findings to be presented at AMOS Conference It’s still in the calibration process, but the prototype Pan-STARRS telescope and its massive 1.4-billion pixel digital camera already have detected about 100 known asteroids and two...