New technologies for the actuation and control of large aperture lightweight optical quality mirrors

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 1717-1728

  Gullapalli, Sarma N ^a   Flood, Robert ^a   Yang, Eui Hyeok ^b   Lih, Shyh Shiuh ^b  

^a Veridian Systems   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR TECHNOLOGY; DISTRIBUTED ACTUATORS; LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORIES; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM; OPTICAL QUALITIES; SUPPORT STRUCTURES; ULTRA LIGHTWEIGHTS;

ACTUATORS; DEFORMATION;

MIRRORS;

EID: 68549128389     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2003.1235103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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