DOD’s Largest Telescope Receives Recoat: Week in Brief: 09/30/22
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., Sept. 30, 2022 — The Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site’s Advanced Electro-Optical System, or AEOS, the Department of Defense’s largest telescope, measuring 3.6 m, has been recoated. Results of the recoating process were sent to private industry coating experts in Albuquerque, N.M., and Tucson, Ariz. Located on the summit of the 10,023-ft volcano Haleakala, the telescope is part of a series of telescopes called the Maui Space Surveillance System, which the U.S. Space Force uses for