Ball Aerospace [BLL] is participating in a technology demonstration program for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that has an eventual goal of providing persistent, real-time tactical video to warfighters via a light weight, more transportable and more cost-effective telescope. Known as the Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploration (MOIRE), Ball incrementally demonstrated the technologies needed to develop a large, lightweight, space-based telescope for geosynchronous orbit (GEO) using advanced diffractive membrane optics, according to a company statement. MOIRE is…
