Estimating the costs of extremely large telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 309-321

  Stepp, Larry ^a   Daggert, Larry ^b   Gillett, Paul ^a  

^a AURA New Initiatives Office   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost estimating; Design to cost; Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; INFRARED RADIATION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN;

GIANT SEGMENTED MIRROR TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038664193     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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