Orbiting telescope

Orbiting telescopes where telescopes that had been launched or built in space near a planet, and then followed a orbit around it. From the planet beings could use the telescope via controlles located on planet

Uses
Orbiting telescopes where used through out the Galaxy to monitar far away event's and places, such as the ones used by ExGal-4 while monitoring the Galactic horizon. These telescopes where the first devices to see Yuuzhan Vong technology, however at the time it was believed to be simply a asteroid.

Appearances

 * Vector Prime (novel)