Demonstration of a segment alignment maintenance system on a seven-segment sub-array of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4494, Issue , 2002, Pages 69-80

  Rakoczy, John ^a   Hall, Drew ^a   Howard, Richard ^a   Weir, John ^a   Montgomery, Edward ^a   Ames, Greg ^b   Danielson, Tim ^b   Zercher, Phil ^b  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Blue Line Engineering Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Edge sensors; Figure maintenance; Segmented mirrors

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; MOTION COMPENSATION; OPTICAL TESTING; OPTICS; SENSORS; SPACE FLIGHT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

FIGURE MAINTENANCE; HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPES; SEGMENT ALIGNMENT MAINTENANCE SYSTEMS; SEGMENTED MIRRORS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036396479     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454780     Document Type: Article

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