Manufacture of mirror glass substrates for the NUSTAR mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7437, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zhang, William W ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Glass slumping; Lightweight optics; Nustar; X ray optics

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; GLASS SLUMPING; GLASS SUBSTRATES; HARD X RAY; LIGHTWEIGHT OPTICS; LOW EARTH ORBITS; MIRROR ASSEMBLY; MIRROR SUBSTRATE; MULTI-LAYER-COATING; NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER; NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPY; NUSTAR; TELESCOPE ARRAYS; THIN GLASS SHEETS; TWO MIRRORS; X RAY TELESCOPE; X-RAY OBSERVATORY;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; BUILDINGS; GLASS; MIRRORS; MULTILAYERS; NASA; NUCLEAR RADIATION SPECTROSCOPY; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE FLIGHT; SUBSTRATES; TELESCOPES; ULTRAVIOLET DEVICES; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 70449380353     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.830225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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