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November 29, 2010
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Optis Software To Optimize Chinese Satellite Design
Toulon, France (SPX) Nov 28, 2010
OPTIS reports that the China Academy of Space Technology in Beijing has chosen OPTIS's OptisWorks software for stray light analysis to optimize the optical performance. The China Academy of Space Technology, the leading space agency in China, is responsible for the coordination of the national Chinese Space Programme. They participated in the development of the As optical systems become more and more complicated the phenomenon known as "stray light" poses increasingly complex problems for the desi ... read more

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