Development of large aperture cooled telescopes for the space infrared telescope for cosmology and astrophysics (SPICA) mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5962, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Onaka, Takashi ^a   Kaneda, Hidehiro ^b   Enya, Keigo ^b   Nakagawa, Takao ^b   Murakami, Hiroshi ^b   Matsuhara, Hideo ^b   Kataza, Hirokazu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C SiC mirrors; Large cooled telescope; SiC mirrors; Space infrared astronomy; SPICA

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COOLING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; MIRRORS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SILICON CARBIDE; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

C/SIC MIRRORS; LARGE COOLED TELESCOPE; SIC MIRRORS; SPACE INFRARED ASTRONOMY; SPICA;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 33144460957     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.625020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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