NASA to demonstrate first-of-its-kind in-space manufacturing technique for telescope mirrors

NASA to demonstrate first-of-its-kind in-space manufacturing technique for telescope mirrors

Space Daily

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Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 06, 2020

Large telescopes that could be used for detecting and analyzing Earth-like planets in orbit around other stars or for peering back in time to observe the very early universe may not necessarily have to be built and assembled on the ground. In the future, NASA could construct them in space. A NASA engineer was selected for a flight opportunity to show that an advanced thin-film manufacturin

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