SOFIA lightweight primary mirror
Abstract
Thanks to its experience in lightweighting ceramic glass mirrors by machining, R.E.O.S.C. won the contract for designing and manufacturing the primary mirror and its lateral fixations of the 2.7 m. SOFIA telescope which will be installed aboard a 747 SP Boeing aircraft to constitute the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
- Publication:
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Advanced Technology Optical/IR Telescopes VI
- Pub Date:
- August 1998
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1998SPIE.3352..354E