Science Telescope for Gravity Probe B

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5172, Issue , 2003, Pages 108-118

  Wang, S ^a   Farley, R P ^b   Goebel, J H ^c   Heifetz, M ^a   Lipa, J A ^a   Turneaure, J P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fused quartz; GP B; Low temperature; Optical telescope; Relativity Mission; Silicon JFET; Star tracker

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; CRYOGENICS; GRAVITATION; GYROSCOPES; MIRRORS; PHOTODIODES; QUARTZ; SILICON; SPACECRAFT;

RELATIVITY MISSION; STAR TRACKERS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 1242331378     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.513934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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