RSAA Colloquia / Seminars / Feast-of-Facts: Tuesday, 19 December 2023, 11:00-12:30; ZOOM or Duffield Lecture Theatre


Domenico Bonaccini Calia

"Pushing LGS-AO technologies towards Space awareness and SatComm"

I will report on the work done at ESO with collaborating institutes and industry, towards an LGS-AO facility for testing novel schemes and devices related to visible LGS-AO systems for astronomy and for satellite communications. This is the CaNaPy (ESO) – ALASCA (ESA) project, which is installed and being commissioned at the ESA OGS 1m telescope in Tenerife. I will review the main requirements, the system configuration, the elements of novelty, and how we have addressed them. I will show results of end-to-end simulations for the system.