Tag: moire
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DARPA Designs Giant Foldable Satellite Capable of Surveilling 40% of Earth at Once
from dailymail.co.uk: The Pentagon has designed a massive spy satellite that will dwarf any space telescope ever launched – and it point its sensitive lens back at us. The Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) will be capable of capturing 40 percent of the surface of the Earth at once. It will be able…
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scud watching from geostationary earth orbit
Mad Scientists at DARPA are excited about prospects for Membrane Optic Imager Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) program. “MOIRE will park in space over the earth, and once there will unleash a “micron-thin diffractive-optics membrane” to form a 65-foot super-thin lens to watch a wider swath of ground more closely than anything else before,” according to Business…