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TACSAT II Update

Image above: Launch of the TacSat-2 Dec 16th, 2006 from Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops, VA. Credit: NASA

TACSAT II is based on an "off-the-shelf" RC Optical Systems 20" f/8 Carbon Tube Telescope that was highly modified by AFRL.

The next RCOS Space Telescope (delivered to NASA February 2007) is a Ruggedized 20RC Military model also to be launched by a Minotaur. Stay tuned......