Image: Teide Observatory on Tenerife, Spain
Friday, April 14, 2017 - 06:11
in Astronomy & Space
ESA operates its Optical Ground Station (OGS) at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife, Spain, where a Zeiss 1 m-diameter telescope is used to survey and characterise objects near the 'geostationary ring' some 36 000 km above the equator. The telescope has RitcheyChrétien optics and highly efficient digital cameras.