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Advanced UVOIR Mirror Technology Development for Very Large Space Telescopes
Completed
TRL 1 (started at 1, targeting 1)
Description
Future UV/Optical telescopes will require increasingly large apertures to answer the questions raised by HST, JWST, Planck and Hershel, and to complement the = 30-m ground-based telescopes that will be coming on line in the next decade. Apertures in space in a 10m-class scale will be needed to serve this goal. For diffraction limited performance, technologies are therefore required that provide a high degree of thermal and dynamic stability, and wave front sensing and control.
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Details
| Technology area | Sensors and Instruments > Observatories > Mirror Systems |
| Program | Astrophysics Research and Analysis (APRA) |
| Lead organization | Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL |
| Start date | 2010-01-01 |
| End date | 2014-01-01 |
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