Development and testing of an actively-controlled large aperture cassegrain telescope for spacecraft deployment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1042-1053

  Boone, Bradley G ^a   Bruzzi, Jonathan R ^a   Kluga, Bernard E ^a   Rogala, Eric W ^a   Chen, P C ^b   Hale, Richard D ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c University of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Active control; Cassegrain; Deployable; Telescope; Ultra lightweight

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; CASSEGRAIN; DEPLOYABLE; ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT;

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER BEAMS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; STABILIZATION;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10044257816     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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