REOSC, SAGEM Group, has a significant contribution to the SOFIA project with the design and fabrication of the 2.7-m primary mirror and its fixtures as well as the M3 mirror tower assembly. This paper will primarily report the progress made on the primary mirror design and the first important manufacturing step: its lightweighting by machining pockets from the rear side of the blank.
Progress on SOFIA primary mirror
Airborne Telescope Systems ; 2000 ; Munich,Germany
Proc. SPIE ; 4014
2000-06-20
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Design and Manufacturing of SOFIA´s Primary Mirror Cell
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