Experiment of Segment Mirrors Initial Capture, Coarse Alignment and Coarse Phasing on WCT-2
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Norton, T.
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NGST wavefront control
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Wavefront Control for a Segmented Deployable Space Telescope
By segmenting and folding the primary mirror, quite large telescopes can be packed into the nose cone of a rocket.
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DCATT Dispersed Fringe Sensor: Modeling and Experimenting with the Transmissive Phase Plates
Control algorithms developed for coarse phasing the segmented mirrors of the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST)are being tested in realistic modeling and on the NGST wavefront control testbed, also known as DCATT.
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DCATT Dispersed Fringe Sensor (DFS) -- Modeling and Experiment with Transmissive Phase Plates
The alignment and phasing control of NGST's segment primary mirrors use images from the science camera instead of dedicated instruments.
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