Patent ID: 11971300
Assignee: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A CubeSat spacecraft assembly, the spacecraft assembly comprising:
an off-axis telescope system disposed within a predetermined CubeSat payload volume, said telescope system which is operational in an ultraviolet-visual-infrared (UV-VIS-IR) spectral range spanning from 300 nm to at least 2500 nm, said telescope system including a parabolic primary mirror and a hyperbolic secondary mirror, wherein said telescope system is disposed within a 1U volume,
wherein said parabolic primary mirror and said hyperbolic secondary mirror are made of a carbon nano-tube polymer matrix composite;

an aperture disposed in said parabolic primary mirror,
wherein a plurality of light rays entering said telescope system are incident on said parabolic primary mirror and converged on said hyperbolic secondary mirror, and collected by said aperture of said parabolic primary mirror; and

an electronics subsystem disposed within said predetermined CubeSat payload volume, said electronics subsystem which processes an output from said aperture, wherein said predetermined CubeSat payload volume is no more than 3U.