Inflation-deployed camera and hyper-thin mirrors

Breckinridge, James B.; Meinel, A. B.; Meinel, Marjorie P.

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“…The authors of [53] proposed instead of an inflatable mirror to use a flexible but non-elastic very thin membrane rolled in a cigar-like cylinder for launch.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The required shape of the thin-film mirror having been deployed in space must be fixed, then rigidized with the use of a number techniques [44], for example, with inflating [46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55], electrostatic forces (see, for instance, [4]) or with epoxy gum [44].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The surface of the inflated curved membrane was neither spherical nor parabolic (oblate spheroid). Its basic error is referred to as w-profile error [47,53]. The more was the previous tension of the membrane the closer to a sphere its surface became [46].…”

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“…A thin membrane 10-100µm in thickness is to be packed and then deployed on orbit without inflating. Instead of inflatable lens-like construction they concentrated on the close-to-accurate film's shape reproduced with the cladding enabled the correcting tension.The authors of [53] proposed instead of an inflatable mirror to use a flexible but non-elastic very thin membrane rolled in a cigar-like cylinder for launch.It is rather important is the problem of a correction technique for film mirrors. Distributed actuators on the primary mirror provide a means of adjusting the local mirror shape, a feature that inflating cannot provide by itself.…”

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Study Of Pre-Shaped Membrane Mirrors And Electrostatic Mirrors With Nonlinear-Optical Correction

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Emel'yanov²

2002

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“…The authors of [53] proposed instead of an inflatable mirror to use a flexible but non-elastic very thin membrane rolled in a cigar-like cylinder for launch.…”

Section: Super-light Mirrorsmentioning

confidence: 99%