Actuated Hybrid Mirror Telescope
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Saturday, October 01 2005
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A new type of lightweight, wide-aperture, precise telescope is under development.
The figure depicts the planned Actuated Hybrid Mirror Telescope (AHMT), which is intended to demonstrate a new approach to the design and construction of wide-aperture spaceborne telescopes for astronomy and Earth science. This technology is also appropriate for Earth-based telescopes.
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