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![Haystack Ultrawideband Satellite Imaging Radar at night](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-10/442971-340D.jpg?itok=J79ovyKl)
Haystack Ultrawideband Satellite Imaging Radar
Lincoln Laboratory created the world's highest-resolution radar for imaging of space objects in support of space situational awareness.
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![The SST awaits nightfall to be tasked with scanning space from its location atop the Atom Site, a high-altitude observation point in New Mexico that provides a view of the sky that is virtually untouched by light pollution.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/SST.jpg?h=f2221fcc&itok=9b1wHMNb)
Space Surveillance Telescope
A unique curved focal surface enables a highly sensitive telescope capable of surveying broad swaths of deep space to detect the faintest objects in the night sky.
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![Optical sensors, such as the Space Surveillance Telescope, collect data that are processed by analysts at Air Force sites who use OPAL to provide detections of space objects.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/AR11_SST_oscura_cropv2.jpg?h=0b07471d&itok=l3sX_umV)
Optical Processing Architecture at Lincoln
Our researchers developed a software architecture that allows analysts to rapidly run algorithms on the volumes of sensor data collected about space objects.
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![SensorSat was launched and deployed into orbit from this Minotaur IV rocket. Photo courtesy of Orbital ATK](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/ORS-5_MinoaturIV_2.jpg?h=37129a01&itok=eMLq7Ui2)