NASA NTRS · 20040082314
Mirror Requirements for SAFIR
Abstract
Large-aperture lightweight low-cost cryogenic mirrors are an enabling technology for planned NASA far-infrared and sub-millimeter missions such as CMB-Pol, SAFIR and SPECS. This paper examines d e mirror requirements necessary to design, build and characterize mirror segments for large space telescopes operating at temperatures of less than 1OK. Such mirrors should be diffraction limited in the far-IR with an areal density of less than 10 kg/sq m, aperture of 1 to 2 meters and cost of less than $500,000 per square meter.
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Stahl, H. Philip, Leisawitz, David T., Benford, Dominic J.. 2004-01-01. Mirror Requirements for SAFIR. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20040082314
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