Interferometer instrument design for New Millennium Deep Space 3

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3350, Issue , 1998, Pages 173-183

  Blackwood, Gary H ^a   Dubovitsky, Serge ^a   Linfield, Roger P ^a   Gorham, Peter W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Formation flying; Metrology; Michelson interferometer; Space based optical iriterferometry

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; ERROR DETECTION; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; JITTER; LIGHT; MEASUREMENTS; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SPACECRAFT; VISIBILITY;

ACTIVE OPTICS; FORMATION FLYING; METROLOGY; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER; SPACE-BASED OPTICAL IRITERFEROMETRY;

SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 33847677809     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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