Strategies for Servicing the Single Aperture Far IR (SAFIR) telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5899, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-12

  Lester, Dan ^a   Friedman, Ed ^b   Lillie, Charles ^c  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Infrared; Observatory; On orbit servicing; Robotics; Telescope

Indexed keywords

ON-ORBIT SERVIVICING; SPACE ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY; GALAXIES; INFRARED RADIATION; ROBOTICS; SPACE TELESCOPES; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 29344445660     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.624242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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