Collapsible Space Telescope (CST) for Nanosatellite Imaging and Observation, Year 2

This project furthers the development of innovative deployable aperture technologies meant for integration within 6U nanosatellites. Prior work developed the concept for a Collapsible Space Telescope. This work included a design of a deployment structure for a 152.4mm aperture f/8 RC telescope and the construction of a full-scale deployable truss tube prototype. This project will refine the telescope design to include computational ray tracing.

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