High performance optical payloads for microsatellites

Safran is presenting two concepts of optical payloads for microsatellites combining high performances and extremely compact volume. The first one offer 10-m Ground Sampling Distance (GSD) over 60x40 km2 area from 600 km orbit optimized for twilight conditions. The second one is offering a much higher resolution of 1.8-m over 11x7,5 km2 area from the same 600 km orbit. The two concepts are based on advanced innovative diffraction limited optical system packaged in a unique very compact volume lower than 8U = 200x200x200 mm making them the ideal solution for 15- 100 kg microsatellites. The maximum number of pixels is served to the end-user space imagery community thanks to 35 mm Full Frame sensors offering, as of today, 6000x4000 pixels. Up to 10 spectral bands from 475 to 900 nm can be offered thanks to 2D structured filters.