SALTO
The SALTO project (Smart Adaptive-optics and Laser guide-star for medium-size Telescopes and Optical communications) is an industry-oriented project led by AMOS, which aims to demonstrate the operation of a small, robotic laser-guided adaptive optics system for applications ranging from astronomy to space debris tracking and optical telecommunications.
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he SALTO project aims to develop an adaptive optics solution that is financially accessible to the majority of scientific observatories. To achieve this, the partners will adapt the adaptive optical technology with laser guide star already developed for large scale expensive telescopes to medium-sized industrialized telescopes (2 to 4 m).
Beyond scientific applications, this technology will also allow the development of an autonomous adaptive optics system for the promising market of optical space telecommunications.
This technology allows to counterbalance the atmospheric turbulence and to recreate an imagery almost as efficiently as in a homogeneous medium (vacuum for instance).
The project is currently completing its detailed design and entering its implementation phase, with a target first light by the end of 2021 at Redu Space Services.
