Design And Fabrication Of The NASA 2.4-Meter Space Telescope

Daniel J. McCarthy; Terence A. Facey

doi:10.1117/12.934268

27 May 1982 Design And Fabrication Of The NASA 2.4-Meter Space Telescope

Daniel J. McCarthy, Terence A. Facey

Proceedings Volume 0330, Optical Systems Engineering II; (1982) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934268
Event: 1982 Los Angeles Technical Symposium, 1982, Los Angeles, United States

Abstract

For more than 15 years, NASA, the National Academy of Sciences, the America Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the community of the world's astronomers vigorously promoted the idea of a telescope in space, at seminars, symposia and conferences. Follow-ing several years of detailed engineering design studies, Congress in 1977 gave approval for a 2.4-meter Space Telescope to be designed, developed and launched from the Space Shuttle, which itself at that time was in the early stages of development. Following a competition, contracts were awarded to Lockheed for the Spacecraft and to Perkin-Elmer for the Optical Telescope Assembly.

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Daniel J. McCarthy and Terence A. Facey "Design And Fabrication Of The NASA 2.4-Meter Space Telescope", Proc. SPIE 0330, Optical Systems Engineering II, (27 May 1982); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934268

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