Accomplishments include: Assembled outstanding team from academia, industry and government with expertise in science and space telescope engineering. Derived engineering specifications for monolithic primary mirror from science measurement needs & implementation constraints. Pursuing long-term strategy to mature technologies necessary to enable future large aperture space telescopes. Successfully demonstrated capability to make 0.5 m deep mirror substrate and polish it to UVOIR traceable figure specification.
Advanced Mirror Technology Development (AMTD) for Very Large Space Telescopes
Astrophysics Roadmap Town Hall Meeting (virtual) ; 2013 ; web-based & open to the public, United States
2013-05-06
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