Title :
10 Meter sub-orbital large balloon reflector (LBR)
Author :
David Lesser;Christopher K. Walker;I. Steve Smith;Paul F. Goldsmith;German Cortes;Stefan Dougherty;Brandon Swift;Jenna Kloosterman;Casey Honniball;Abram Young;William Peters;Craig Kulesa;William Perry;James Noll;Pietro Bernasconi;Christopher Groppi;Hamdi
Author_Institution :
Astronomy Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Abstract :
Now in Phase II of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program, our team is advancing key technologies required to realize a suborbital, 10 meter class telescope suitable for operation from radio to THz frequencies. The telescope consists of an inflatable, half-aluminized spherical reflector deployed within a much larger carrier balloon - either zero pressure or super pressure.
Keywords :
"Telescopes","Distortion","Prototypes","Terrestrial atmosphere","Optical distortion","Space vehicles"
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2015 40th International Conference on
Electronic_ISBN :
2162-2035
DOI :
10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2015.7327547
