Space Tech Expo 2022
At the Space Tech Expo 2022 in Bremen from 15.11 – 17.11. with 500 exhibitors and over 5.000 attendees, the Institute of Technical Physics was represented by a team of scientists. The Institute presented the system APPARILLO, a passive-optical staring system for the detection of orbital objects. This weatherproof, mobile system can measure the angular position of near-Earth objects and forward them to an existing database.
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The Institute of Technical Physics also presented the new Johannes Kepler Observatory at the Space Tech Expo. The observatory detects and characterizes space debris in low-Earth orbit and is the largest of its kind in Europe.