Review of Spaceborne Optical Payloads

What is it about?

This is the first chapter of book "Optical Payloads for Space Missions" published by Wiley. It provides an overview of spaceborne optical payloads and summarizes over 50 selected optical payloads flew, flying and to be flown in orbits in various space missions, including Earth observation, communications, weather, and science satellites and deep space exploration.

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Why is it important?

Optical payloads are at the core of a space mission and largely determine the mission’s cost, complexity and effectiveness. This book is the first that offers a mission's decision makers, engineers, and scientists useful information, know-how, and lessons learned from existing space missions to reduce risks, shorten the development period, and lower the cost of their own space missions.