Fabrication of strongly curved aspheric silicon carbide mirrors
conference paper
TNO Science and Industry has designed and is currently developing the Basic Angle Monitoring Opto-Mechanical Assembly (BAM OMA) [1], which is part of the GAIA spacecraft. In GAIA two telescopes mounted on a slowly spinning satellite will measure the position of the stars with an accuracy much higher as ever done before. Crucial in the system is that the relative angle between the two telescopes should remain stable in the μrad range. The GAIA BAM-OMA system is equipped with two off-axis parabolic mirrors that have to be polished to a high shape accuracy.
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TNO Identifier
520139
ISBN
9780955308284
Publisher
Euspen
Source title
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology, EUSPEN 2010, June 1020, Delft, Netherlands
Editor(s)
Shore, P.
Burke, T.
Spaan, H.
Brussel, H. van
Burke, T.
Spaan, H.
Brussel, H. van
Pages
23-28
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