• DocumentCode
    3691394
  • 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
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2015 40th International Conference on
  • ISSN
    2162-2027
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2162-2035
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2015.7327547
  • Filename
    7327547
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3691394