The SOFIA aircraft and its modification

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4857, Issue , 2002, Pages 333-343

  Kunz, Nans ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

747 SP; Airborne telescope; Aircraft; Astronomy; NASA; SOFIA

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRAPOLATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND TUNNELS;

STRATOSPHERIC OBSERVATORY FOR INFRARED ASTRONOMY; TELESCOPE OPTICS; UNIVERSE;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038192325     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.472490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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