Transportable Optical Ground Station

DFM Engineering has experience designing mobile platforms for ground, shipborne, and airborne use.  These versatile platforms can be deployed where and when needed to different locations to test in various environments, atmospheric turbulence levels, climate / weather conditions, and varying background light pollution levels.  

In addition to deployment location flexibility, a mobile platform allows for testing in various representative environments and realistic operating conditions for hardware validation and iterative design that simply cannot be accomplished using fixed dedicated ground stations.

These stations can be deployed whenever and wherever needed and can be powered by a mains attachment, generator, or a solar powered battery assembly.  These transportable platforms can also be shipping container based as well (as shown with our LEO Scope™ and LEO Comm™ products) , allowing for discrete movement of telescope systems. 

For satellite tracking applications, DFM offers a patent pending solution that makes setup and reliability issues with Adaptive Optics, a Coudé path, or Nasmyth focus, a thing of the past.  Real-time atmospheric turbulence compensation no longer relies on fussy hardware solutions to provide systems that require the least amount of human intervention possible.  This unlocks practical portable low-power (mW) satellite laser communication (LEO Comm™).

For a truly portable solution, a ruggedized variant of the 0.7m LEO Scope™ can be combined with our ALT-ALT mount to create an optical platform suitable for ground, shipborne, or airborne use.  Whatever your need, DFM Engineering has the experience necessary to create your desired portable optical solution.

0.7m ALT-ALT LEO Scope™ exquisite long-range imaging device