Large deployable telescopes for future space observatories

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5899, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-12

  Lillie, C F ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Mechanisms; Observatories; Precision deployment; Segmented optics

Indexed keywords

PRECISION DEPLOYMENT; SEGMENTED OPTICS;

ASTRONOMY; MECHANISMS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICS; PLANETS; SPACE RESEARCH;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 29344465750     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.624231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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