Space telescope design considerations

Optical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Feinberg, Lee ^a   Cohen, Lester ^b   Dean, Bruce ^a   Hayden, William ^a   Howard, Joseph ^a   Keski Kuha, Ritva ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hubble Space Telescope; James Webb Space Telescope; optical telescope element; space telescope

Indexed keywords

BUDGETARY CONSTRAINTS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN OPTION; HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPES; JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE; OPTICAL TELESCOPE ELEMENT; PERFORMANCE METRICS; ROADMAP; TECHNOLOGY MATURITY; TELESCOPE DESIGN; TOTAL COSTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPE ELEMENTS;

DESIGN; COSTS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 84856944315     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.51.1.011006     Document Type: Article

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