A study was conducted to assess the feasibility of designing an Infrared Telescope of the 1 meter class which would operate effectively as a Shuttleborne, 14-day Spacelab payload and then be adapted with little modification to work as a 6 month Space station or free flyer payload. The optics configuration and requirements from a previous study were used without modification. In addition, an enhancement to 2 year mission lengths was studied. The cryogenic system selected was a hybrid design with an internal solid Hydrogen tank at 8 Kelvin and an internal superfluid tank at 2K. In addition to the cryogenic design, a detailed look at secondary mirror actuators for chopping, focus and decenter was conducted and analysis and cryo test reported.
Long life feasibility study for the shuttle infrared telescope facility
1985-06-01
Report
No indication
English
Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility
NTRS | 1976
|Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility
SPIE | 1976
|Shuttle infrared telescope facility
Tema Archive | 1976
|SIRTF - The Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility
NTRS | 1982
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