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Astronomy as a career has been, for the majority of people involved, an academic pursuit, however there are increasingly wide-spread applications in other sectors. Today, potential markets range from the already bustling amateur astronomy scene to rapidly growing wide-scale industrial applications. We at Tuparev AstroTech, with partners Astrosysteme Austria, are involved in projects spanning this whole spectrum. On the one side, the increasing amount of satellites in orbit and the rising amounts of space debris mean the space around the Earth could rapidly be rendered unusable. As part of this effort, we are attempting to create a large, worldwide network to monitor satellites and space junk, covering regimes not included in the current generation of monitoring programmes. We are involved in every step from manufacturing and setting up the telescopes, to developing the pipeline for detecting and determining properties of such objects, through to the expected petabyte database management. On the other side, for amateur and professional astronomers, we are developing a range of inter-connected, modern astronomy tools and applications, development of affordable spectrographs, renovation of old observatory facilities as well as location of potential sites for new observatories. In this talk, I will give an overview of some of the projects we are involved in as well as some of the wider astronomy market out there. |
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