GEDI is a sophisticated LIDAR instrument now on its way to the ISS. Once installed, it will use powerful laser pulses (10 mJ, 242 Hz) from several lasers to map height in 3D, collecting multiple reflections (for example from canopy and ground to better understand forest structures in 3D).
Light is collected by a large 70 cm mirror and fast optical system to a detector system that is both spatially resolved and can recover nanosecond timing information.
I can't even figure out the optical system though. The first screen shot from the video B-roll footage of the Goddard Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) instrument being built and tested at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in 2018. shows a solid mirror with no central hole. However other images show the rest of the optical system in place along the axis and at least touching the mirror. There is no evidence of cables or or supports, so I'm wondering what holds it there, and how the detector system receives power and sends data.
Question: What kind of optical design is used by the GEDI's receiving telescope, what holds the secondary mirror and focal plane system in place, and how does the detector connect to the rest of the electronics?
Screenshots from NASA video
below: cropped from a huge image gsfc_20180118_gedi_06207_0.jpg
from this NASA News item.