 for the future of a big growth industry in the future, space mining. The telescope, named the Sutter Ultra Telescope, after the famed Sutter's Mill California Gold Rush of the 1800s, each telescope in orbit will have 109 12-inch telescopes to individually point out small asteroidal bodies, but it could also be used for purposes closer to home to track space junk. That's now a big problem in low-Earth orbit.