Wavefront sensing and control for a next generation space telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3356, Issue , 1998, Pages 758-772

  Redding, David ^a   Basinger, Scott ^a   Lowman, Andrew E ^a   Kissil, Andy ^a   Bely, Pierre ^b   Burg, Richard ^c   Lyon, Rick ^d   Mosier, Gary ^e   Femiano, Mike ^e   Wilson, Mark ^e   Schunk, Greg ^f   Craig, Larry ^f   Jacobson, David ^f   Rakoczy, John ^f   Hadaway, James ^g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE-LINE ARCHITECTURE; MASSIVE STRUCTURES; NEXT GENERATION SPACE TELESCOPES; ORBITAL ENVIRONMENTS; SCIENTIFIC PERFORMANCE; THERMAL DEFORMATION; WAVE FRONT CONTROL; WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

ALIGNMENT; WAVEFRONTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT WEIGHT EQUIPMENT; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SENSORS;

SPACE TELESCOPES; AIRBORNE TELESCOPES;

NEXT GENERATION SPACE TELESCOPES (NGST); WAVEFRONT CONTROL;

EID: 0032290580     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.324494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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