Deployable Optics Modeling Experiments (DOME)

Technology Development for a Low-Cost Deployable Lidar Telescope

Technologies

• Segmented deployed mirror with deployed depth reaction structure
• Pegasus-size package equivalent to Delta-II-size mirror (saves $$)
• Precision deployment
  • Mechanical
  • Elastic Memory Composite
• Microdynamic stability

Science Applications

• Earth Atmospheric Science
• Global tropospheric DIAL profiling of O₃, H₂O and CO₂
• Climate and weather prediction

Co-Investigator

• NASA Langley Research Center
  Atmospheric Sciences Competency

Collaborators

• Boeing-SVS (Optical Analysis)
• Composite Technology Development (Elastic Memory Composite Hinge and Latch)