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Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the National
Aeronautic Laboratory, and the Space and Technology Agency have
allocated the necessary funds to bring this facility on-line. This
observatory is located near Bisei town, Japan. In addition to the search
for NEOs, this facility will be used to track debris in Earth orbit. The 1-meter
Cassegrain telescope has a field of view of 3 degrees and there
are plans to use a mosaic of ten CCD detectors each one of which will
have dimensions of 2096 x 4096 pixels. A 0.5-meter telescope with a
field of view of 2 x 2 degrees began operations in February 2000. Once
the 1-meter NEO search telescope begins operations, the 0.5-meter
telescope will be used to provide follow-up astrometric observations.
Syuzo Isobe: Principal Investigator
Look here for additional information on the JSGA program:
http://www.spaceguard.or.jp/ja/index.html
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