Publication Date:
2011-08-24
Description:
The present multidisciplinary telescope-analysis approach, which encompasses thermal, structural, control and optical considerations, is illustrated for the case of an IR telescope in LEO; attention is given to end-to-end evaluations of the effects of mechanical disturbances and thermal gradients in measures of optical performance. Both geometric ray-tracing and surface-to-surface diffraction approximations are used in the telescope's optical model. Also noted is the role played by NASA-JPL's Integrated Modeling of Advanced Optical Systems computation tool, in view of numerical samples.
Keywords:
SPACECRAFT DESIGN, TESTING AND PERFORMANCE
Type:
In: Controls for optical systems; Proceedings of the Meeting, Orlando, FL, Apr. 21, 22, 1992 (A93-34276 13-74); p. 231-242.
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