Flexible Design for an in-Space Assembled Telescope

Many space-based and ground-based telescope proposals are trending towards larger primary mirror aperture diameters, driven in part by the desire within the astrophysics community to discover Earth-like exoplanets. Though ground-based telescopes can continue to grow in size, space-based telescopes a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Davidson, Rosemary, Miller, David W.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Published: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153384