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Multi-use lunar telescopesThe objective of multi-use telescopes is to reduce the initial and operational costs of space telescopes to the point where a fair number of telescopes, a dozen or so, would be affordable. The basic approach is to develop a common telescope, control system, and power and communications subsystem that can be used with a wide variety of instrument payloads, i.e., imaging CCD cameras, photometers, spectrographs, etc. By having such a multi-use and multi-user telescope, a common practice for earth-based telescopes, development cost can be shared across many telescopes, and the telescopes can be produced in economical batches.
Document ID
19930052487
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Genet, Russell M.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Genet, David R.
(AutoScope Corp.; Fairborn Observatory, Mesa, AZ, United States)
Talent, David L.
(Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co. Houston, TX, United States)
Drummond, Mark
(Sterling Software, Inc.; NASA, Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Hine, Butler P.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Boyd, Louis J.
(Fairborn Observatory Mesa, AZ, United States)
Trueblood, Mark
(Winer Mobile Observatory Tucson, AZ, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: In: Robotic telescopes in the 1990s; Proceedings of the Symposium, 103rd Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, June 22-24, 1991, 1991 (A93-36457 14-89)
Publisher: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Subject Category
Astronomy
Accession Number
93A36484
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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