Vision: affordable Skyobservatory for science community and commercial earth observers
Features
- 20inch Optic
- up to 5m focal length
- up to 80cm Resolution
Microsat spec
- 100 kg
- 60cm x 60cm x 60cm
Foldable telescope design for microsat application
The Dobson Space Telescope (DST) is a spin-off from the Technische Universität Berlin. It was founded in 2002 as a research project of the department of astronautics at the TU Berlin. The aim of DST is to develop a foldable telescope for small satellites. Our technology enables mass and volume savings of over 50% compared to classical non deployable technology.
A satellite with the DST payload can achieve
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a 3 times higher resolution at same cost or
- it is 10 times cheaper at the same resolution
than satellites with classical non deployable payloads.
The development team closely cooperates with the Berlin space industry (RIBB). Major partner is the Astro- und Feinwerktechnik Adlershof
GmbH.
Since september 2006 the team recieves Exist Seed funding. Exist Seed is
a program by the German Ministry of Science supported by the European Social Fonds (ESF) to foster high tech start-ups from universities.
DST payloads for microsats will be available from the year 2010.
For more detailed information please visit the papers section of this page