ESA Space Debris Telescope

The ESA Space Debris Telescope is located on the island of Tenerife, Spain. Its primary purpose is the observation of space debris in the geostationary ring and in geostationary transfer orbits. It is a Ritchey-Chrétien telescope with an aperture of 1 m and field of view of 0.7 degrees. Its detection threshold is between 19th and 21st magnitude which corresponds to a capability to detect space debris objects as small as 15 cm in the geostationary ring.

See also

• European Space Agency
• Space debris

See also: ESA Space Debris Telescope, Astronomy, European Space Agency, Geostationary ring, Geostationary transfer orbit, Ritchey-Chrétien telescope, Space debris, Spain, Tenerife