Advanced Mirror Technology Development (AMTD) project: overview and year four accomplishments

H. Philip Stahl

doi:10.1117/12.2234082

22 July 2016 Advanced Mirror Technology Development (AMTD) project: overview and year four accomplishments

H. Philip Stahl

Proceedings Volume 9912, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II; 99120S (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2234082
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The Advanced Mirror Technology Development (AMTD) project is in Phase 2 of a multiyear effort initiated in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012, to mature toward the next Technology Readiness Level (TRL) critical technologies required to enable 4-m-or-larger monolithic or segmented ultraviolet, optical, and infrared (UVOIR) space telescope primary-mirror assemblies for general astrophysics and ultra-high-contrast observations of exoplanets. Key hardware accomplishments of 2015/16 are the successful low-temperature fusion of a 1.5-meter diameter ULE mirror that is a 1/3rd scale model of a 4-meter mirror and the initiation of polishing of a 1.2-meter Extreme-Lightweight Zerodur mirror. Critical to AMTD’s success is an integrated team of scientists, systems engineers, and technologists; and a science-driven systems engineering approach.

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H. Philip Stahl "Advanced Mirror Technology Development (AMTD) project: overview and year four accomplishments", Proc. SPIE 9912, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II, 99120S (22 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2234082

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