Spacecraft Conceptual Design for the 8-Meter Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST).

Author:: Hopkins, Randall C.
Published:: June 28, 2010.
Physical Description:: 1 electronic document
Additional Creators:: Jones, David, Capizzo, Peter, Fincher, Sharon, and Hornsby, Linda S.

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The Advanced Concepts Office at Marshall Space Flight Center completed a brief spacecraft design study for the 8-meter monolithic Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST-8m). This spacecraft concept provides all power, communication, telemetry, avionics, guidance and control, and thermal control for the observatory, and inserts the observatory into a halo orbit about the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point. The multidisciplinary design team created a simple spacecraft design that enables component and science instrument servicing, employs articulating solar panels for help with momentum management, and provides precise pointing control while at the same time fast slewing for the observatory.

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Astronomy

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Document ID: 20100033090.
M10-0764.
SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation; 28 Jun. - 2 Jul. 2010; San Diego, CA; United States.

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