Special Projects at RC Optical Systems...
June 18th, 2009 - RC Optical Systems, Inc., has been awarded a $256,000 contract by the The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT/ENY) at Wright-Patterson AFB to design and build a Space Imaging Component / Space Imaging and Power Laboratory. |
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June 8, 2009 - RC Optical Systems, Inc., wins order to design and build another "Ruggedized" 16 inch RC to be used as a Mid-wave Infrared Telescope at Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF). Delivered October, 2009 |
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May 15, 2009 - RC Optical Systems Inc., wins another order for a Navy Beam Director and Gimbal Mount. |
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May 2009 - RCOS delivers "Ruggedized" 34RC MWIR imager to Vandenberg AFB. This instrument will be mounted on the center platform of MLAIR. |
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October 2008 - RCOS participates with Photo-Sonics providing "Ruggedized" telescopes for the Mobile Multi-Sensor Time-Space-Position-Information System (MMTS) . |
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2008 / 2009 - RCOS wins award for 34 inch "Ruggedized" Carbon/Nomex telescope for tracking intercepts, airborne objects and spacecraft. See animation at the following link. |
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September 2008 - MOST II is an RCOS 14.5 inch ION Milled Ritchey-Chrétien operating on a VTM (Cine-Sextant) Mobile tracking mount at Pacific Range Missile Facility (PMRF). |
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August 2008 - Delivery and installation complete of eight 16 inch Carbon Truss Ritchey-Chrétien telescopes dedicated to the Harvard / Smithsonian MEarth Project. |
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July 2008 - Mobile Large Aperture Infrared (MLAIR). Twin .6ms and one .86m on a Photo-Sonics Cine-Sextant II. This meter class mobile tracking mount is the largest of its kind. |
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May 2008 - The "BATMAN" 24RC by RCOS is used as a Mid Wave IR (3-5mu) acquisition instrument for the AEOS 3.6m on Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii.. |
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June 2008 - Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is a type of atomic emission spectroscopy which utilizes a highly energetic laser pulse as the excitation source. RCOS manufacturers telescopes that perform LIBS operations at 10 meters to 2 kilometers! |
Early 2008 - Directed Energy. Beam Combining Overview Using an RCOS "Ruggedized" Military 20" Ritchey-Chrétien. By Penn State. Development of a fieldable system to track and defeat targets in flight. |
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Vandenberg AFB - Twin "Ruggedized" 20RCs on a Photo-Sonics Cine-Sextant Mobile Tracking Mount. Used with high speed cameras to record launches, intercepts, satellites, and aircraft. |
May 2007. University of North Carolina - Six RCOS custom 16" Ritchey-Chrétien Telescopes that participate in the PROMPT (Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes) project at CTIO, Chile. Their objective is rapid and simultaneous multiwavelength observations of GRB afterglows. |
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Space Telescopes TACSAT II Launches from Wallops Flight Facility. |
