Conceptual Design of the Chinese-Russian On-Orbit-Assembling Space Telescope (OAST)

Solar System Research - Tập 54 - Trang 685-689 - 2020
Xu Boqian1, Yu Funan1, A. S. Shugarov2, M. E. Sachkov2, I. S. Savanov2, Gao Yan1, Wang Shuaihui1, Ju Guohao1, Zhang Chunyue1, Kuang Ye1
1Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun Jilin, China
2Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Tóm tắt

Astronomical space telescopes with large apertures of various spectral ranges have become one of the main tools of exploring the Universe. Conventional technologies do not allow increasing the space telescope aperture above several meters. This article describes the conceptual design of an UV and IR On-orbit Assembling Space Telescope (OAST) with an aperture of 10 m. Unlike conventional space telescopes, the OAST will be modularly designed, manufactured, and then assembled and alignment in space.

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