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Carbon-Nanotube Optics Designed for Space Telescopes

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A lightweight telescope that uses a carbon-nanotube mirror is being designed to fit easily inside a CubeSat, a NASA nanosatellite measuring four inches on one side. The telescope, which may be the first to carry a mirror made of carbon nanotubes in an epoxy resin, will be used for a range of CubeSat scientific investigations. A team of scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has created a laboratory optical bench to test the telescope's overall design. The bench is comprised of three commercially available, miniaturized spectrometers optimized for the UV, visible and NIR...Read full article

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