Visibility maps for cislunar telescopes (IMAGE)

Purdue University

Visibility maps for cislunar telescopes

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Purdue University engineer Carolin Frueh’s research group has created maps to inform where telescopes should be put in cislunar space to improve visibility of the region. The two maps in this figure show how the visibility rate for a constellation of 10 telescopes could increase from 10%, left, to 80% when using certain orbits over a 30-day period.

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Figure provided by Surabhi Bhadauria and Carolin Frueh

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