Spectral Line Mapping Telescope
DRAGONFLY™ array digitally fuses many images from smaller telescopes together.
- Low surface brightness imaging: DRAGONFLY™ is equivalent to a 1 meter aperture refractor (the largest in the world) and it operates at an ultra-fast f/0.39 focal ratio with an enormous (6 square degree) field of view and optical scattering an order of magnitude lower than conventional telescopes.
- Low cubesat payload: The segmented nature makes it extremely scalable.
- Potent wide-area imaging spectrometer: DRAGONFLY™ employs a tilting narrowband interference filter which means it can isolate the glow from the nearly invisible (to every other telescope) at a specific wavelength. Array can be tuned to the wavelength of interest. This is not possible with conventional, unsegmented telescopes.
- Applications: 3D spatial information for astronomy; searches for weak emissions from dark sites at specific wavelengths; Geospatial surveillance and remote sensing.