A one-meter aperture wide-field camera for the Japanese exposure module on space station

We propose to construct and deploy a one-meter, wide field camera for cosmological, science education and other studies and site it on the International Space Station’s Japanese Exposure Module (JEM). The SHOUT Telescope (for S_pace H_ands-O_n U_niverse T_elescope) is an inexpensive powerful instrument that will yield some of the most significant measurements in astrophysics. The detector would consist of a 15,000×15,000 pixel2 imaging CCD made of high-resistivity silicon, with quantum efficiency of approximately 50% at one micron. In addition, a single channel spectrograph is included for spectroscopy on any interesting photometric discoveries. Advances in graphite carbon mirrors and telescope construction enable an instrument weight of about 100–200 kg. Such a low-weight instrument could be placed on a mass-limited shuttle launch. This system would have a performance for finding point objects in a random field ∼100x of that of the Advanced Camera system on HST at a wavelength of one micron. It would fil...