Next milestone for Flyeye telescope! We are happy to announce, that the hashtagFlyeye telescope has successfully reached its next milestone: With the “Telescope Shipment Review” the system was totally verified and the telescope is now ready to be delivered. Developed and assembled by OHB Italia S.p.A. and funded by the European Space Agency – ESA, the first Flyeye Telescope is to support observations of celestial objects with a diameter of up to 100 meters from Sicily, Italy.
About 1,000 new asteroids enter our planetary system every year. More than nine hundred potentially dangerous Near Earth Objects (NEOs), as they are known as, are being monitored. Flyeye is now ready for its transfer to its first destination hashtagMatera observatory in hashtagItaly. Its “first light” is planned to take place within 2024. Later on, the telescope will be transferred to its final destination in Sicily on the Mountain Mufara as soon as the new observatory infrastructure will be completed (end of 2025).
In parallel, the telescope 2nd generation design is progressing. In 2022 OHB Italia signed a contract with the Italian Space Agency hashtagASI for delivering four further Flyeye telescopes dedicated to hashtagSpace Surveillance to create a Flyeye network throughout the world.
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