Launching a 25-meter space telescope: Are astronauts a key to the next technicaly logical step after NGST?

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 7, Issue , 2001, Pages 73599-73611

  Lake, M S ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; ORBITS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

NEXT GENERATION SPACE TELESCOPE (NGST);

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0034842841     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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