Title :
10 Meter sub-orbital large balloon reflector (LBR)
Author :
Walker, Christopher K. ; Smith, I. Steve ; Goldsmith, Paul F. ; O´Dougherty, Stefan ; Swift, Brandon ; Lesser, David ; Kloosterman, Jenna ; Honniball, Casey ; Young, Abram ; Peters, William ; Kulesa, Craig ; Perry, William ; Noll, James ; Bernasconi, Piet
Author_Institution :
Astron. Dept., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Abstract :
Under the auspices of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program our team is developing and demonstrating 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 :
astronomical telescopes; LBR; NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts; NIAC program; carrier balloon; class telescope; size 10 m; suborbital large balloon reflector; Earth; Educational institutions; Laboratories; NASA; Space vehicles; Telescopes; Terrestrial atmosphere;
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2014 39th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tucson, AZ
DOI :
10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2014.6956048
