Status report on the SOFIA pointing system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5495, Issue , 2004, Pages 51-55

  Krabbe, Alfred ^a   Kärcher, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAN Technologie GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air borne; Astronomy; Infrared; Pointing; SOFIA; Telescope

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; AIRCRAFT; CAMERAS; INFRARED RADIATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SPACE TELESCOPES; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

PLANNED COMMISSIONING TESTS; POINTING SYSTEMS; SOFIA; SUBSYSTEMS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 12344251977     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.553288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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