We are currently constructing FalconSAT-7 for launch in late 2013. The low-Earth, 3U CubeSat solar telescope incorporates a 0.2m deployable membrane photon sieve with over 2.5 billion holes. The aim of the experiment is to demonstrate diffraction limited imaging of a collapsible, diffractive primary over a narrow bandwidth. As well as being simpler to manufacture and deploy than curved, polished surfaces, the sheets do not have to be optically flat, greatly reducing many engineering issues. As such, the technology is particularly promising as a means to achieve extremely large optical primaries from compact, lightweight packages.


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    Title :

    Membrane photon sieve telescope


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Sensors and Systems for Space Applications V ; 2012 ; Baltimore,Maryland,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2012-05-07





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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