HEROS: High-EO/IR Resolution Optics for Enhanced Sensing

High TRL subsystems will be integrated to provide sensor with Visible, NIR & LWIR imagery at NIIRs 4 or better for daytime and nighttime operation with limited downlinks•            TRL9 Gimbal- reverse engineered gimbal from Loon, a design with 2 million flight hours of stratospheric operation•            TRL8 LWIR camera / lens flown several times in stratosphere as IRAD and in a NASA funded demo at China Lake for Lightning Bug event•            TRL8 EO lenses including micro four thirds Olympus 300mm F4 PRO and Panasonic Lumix 45-175mm F4-5.6 zoom•            TRL8 Olympus AIR-01 camera will be replaced with TRL4 OM-Systems OM-1 MkII due to discontinuance of the AIR-01•            TRL4 SOSA aligned processing unit due to DAF requirement for SOSA•            Proposed flight testing will bring integrated HEROS system to TRL8