Delivered 4 Flight Qualified, Off-axis Three-Mirror Astigmatic Telescopes to a Japanese Customer Open Back, Zerodur® Optics Lightweighted to 80% 0 g Compensated Figuring Performed to Accommodate for 1g to 0g Change High Radiation Environment Orbit Full System Testing Performed to Verify MTF Requirement In-country Support for Final Alignment and Integration Activities

The Japanese Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) follows the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite-1 (JERS-1) and Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS), and will utilize advanced land observing technology. The ALOS will be used for cartography, regional observation, disaster monitoring, and resource surveying. The ALOS has three remote-sensing instruments: the Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping (PRISM) for digital elevation mapping, the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type 2 (AVNIR-2) for precise land coverage observation, and the Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) for day-and-night and all-weather land observation. The ALOS will be launched by an H-IIA launch vehicle from the Tanegashima Space Center in 2004.

For more information, please visit the ALOS web site.

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