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Brashear to Build Space Telescope Optical Assemblies

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PITTSBURGH, June 25 -- Brashear LP has received a multimillion dollar contract from Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo., to design and fabricate large space optical assemblies for NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. Kepler, a NASA Discovery mission, is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with the technical and science leadership provided by NASA's Ames Research Center. The telescope is designed to detect Earth-like planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system. Scheduled to launch in 2007, Kepler will search for planets using a specialized 1-meter aperture telescope...Read full article

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    Published: June 2003
    Ball AerospaceBrashearenergyKepler space telescopeNASANews & Features

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