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Lab Achieves Mirror Technology Milestone

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KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., August 19 -- A milestone in telescope mirror technology achieved by Air Force scientists here recently is leading to large, lightweight, space-based telescopes many times larger than NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. MIRROR MILESTONE: An artist concept shows a thin-film membrane mirror, at right, in a folded configuration so it can fit aboard a rocket and then be opened in space, as shown at left. Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate here reached a milestone recently by producing a 1-meter-diameter (approximately 3 ?...Read full article

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    Published: August 2003
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