Eye of the sky in Mars.

Chapter thirty two new energy lenses being developed from diamond type glass as the new project called  the 'SKY MOIRE' to orbit earth as this membrane optical imager is set for real-time space exploitation (MOIRE) will be capable of capturing 40 percent of the surface of the Earth at once.
 It will be able to beam back real-time high-resolution video and images from anywhere in the world at any time. The satellite is the brainchild of DARPA, the Pentagon agency tasked with developing the next generation of weapons and technology for the U.S. military. This is an artist's rending of the Membrane Optical Images for real-time space exploitation (MOIRE) satellite that the Pentagon hopes to launch to spy on the earth. This is one of the membrane panels from a prototype of the MOIRE satellite that completed testing on earth. 

It relies on a remarkable technological advancement that could increase the power and precision of space telescopes by several folds - while making them less costly, reports MOIRE uses massive membranes that will be shot into orbit collapsed, but once aloft, can expand to 68 feet in diameter. Currently, the largest ground-based telescope is about half that size. The space-based Hubble Telescope is less than eight feet in diameter. The membrane will be the thickness of household kitchen wrap, but will diffract light - instead of reflecting it or refracting it with mirrors like traditional glass optics it should be able to obtain data at nano levels give unique incite into earths cycle. 

This massive as this drawing shows how much bigger MOIRE is designed to be (68 feet) compared to the Hubble Space Telescope, the W.M. Keck Observatory telescope - which is one of the largest ground-based instruments in the world - and the James Webb Space Telescope, a device planned for launch in 2018.
As this is a prototype full lens of the MOIRE satellite. There is no launch date for the telescope yet, but developers say it is in its final phase. Until now, the scope and precision of space telescopes was limited by the size of their lens, which are quickly becoming too heavy and expensive to carry into space - even for the largest rockets. 'Membrane optics could enable us to fit much larger, higher-resolution telescopes in smaller and lighter packages,' Lieutenant Colonel Larry Gunn, a program manager for MOIRE, told space cursers. 'In that respect, we’re "breaking the glass ceiling" that traditional materials impose on optics design.' The MOIRE satellite will be both cheaper to produce and cheaper to deploy, if the design works out because it doesn't require the high-quality glass. DARPA has already tested a ground-based prototype of the project.  Researchers will now move into the final phase of the project. No completion date has been made publicly available as yet.  Animation shows how the spy in the sky 'MOIRE' concept works. Multi functional array for energies as well as satellite inter-photography.

Up to this point, high resolution imagery has required large-diameter mirrors, but the thick, heavy glass is difficult to make and expensive. According to Darpa, to keep up, the glass mirrors are rapidly approaching the point where they will be too large, heavy and costly for even the largest of today’s rockets.
“Membrane optics could enable us to fit much larger, higher-resolution telescopes in smaller and lighter packages,” said Lt. Col. Larry Gunn, Darpa program manager. “In one respect, we’re ‘breaking the glass ceiling’ that traditional materials impose on optics design.”Instead of reflecting light with mirrors or refracting it with lenses as traditional space telescopes do, MOIRE’s membrane — roughly the thickness of kitchen plastic wrap — optics diffract light. Because MOIRE is so much lighter and smaller at launch, Darpa thinks the program will be ‘budget effective’  and more efficient hoping our research could also help greatly reduce overall costs and enable more timely deployment using smaller, less expensive launch vehicles clearing way up said Gunn.
 Darpa says the MOIRE program is in its second and final phase and recently demonstrated a ground-based prototype that implemented several critical aspects of the project. The sizes of the Spitzer, Hubble, Webb and Keck telescopes show there’s no comparison to what the MOIRE telescope could cover as this huge 68ft device that will record zoom-able HD video of 40% of Earth's the surface simultaneously. Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) uses a massive web of thin membranes instead of heavy lenses. It is being developed by Pentagon's DARPA future weapons agency. Satellite will have 68-foot lens - dwarfing Hubble, which is only eight feet dwarf any space telescope ever launched set to point its sensitive lens back at us.