NASA green lights self-assembling space telescope

NASA green lights self-assembling space telescope

  • April 30, 2018
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NASA green lights self-assembling space telescope

His idea involves programming thousands of individual hexagon-shaped modules, each 1 meter across and topped with an edge-to-edge active (adjustable) mirror assembly. These would form the primary and secondary mirrors.

Source: cornell.edu

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