Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Basinger, S..
This paper describes adaptive optics control laws that are now being implemented on the Palomar Mountain Hale telescope. This system uses a Shack-Hartman sensor observing natural guide stars to drive a 241 active-actuator deformable mirror and a fast steering mirror.
An 85 cm aperture beryllium mirror was fabricated as part of the Infrared Telescope Technology Testbed (ITTT), a facility to which the SIRTF flight telescope will be traceable.
The Next Generation Space Telescope will provide more than ten times the collecting area of the Hubble Space Telescope in a package that fits into the shroud of an expendable launch vehicle. This paper illustrates the operation and performance expected for initial telescope alignment, segment phasing, and fine figure control for the NGST yardstick design.