Mirror requirements for SAFIR

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1613-1616

  Stahl, H Philip ^a   Leisawitz, David ^b   Benford, Dominic J ^b  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenic optics; Mirror requirements; Space telescopes

Indexed keywords

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND POLARIZATION (CMB-POL); CRYOGENIC OPTICS; MIRROR REQUIREMENTS; SINGLE APERTURE FAR-INFRARED (SAFIR);

ACTUATORS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLASS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT; STIFFNESS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 10044241831     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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