The scaling relationship between telescope cost and aperture size for very large telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 563-570

  Van Belle, Gerard T ^a   Meinel, Aden Baker ^b   Meinel, Marjorie Pettit ^b  

^a Michelson Science Center   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; INSTRUMENT SCALES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; VECTORS;

APERTURE SIZE; COST DATA; GRAVITY VECTOR; TELESCOPE MOUNTING;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444223836     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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