The Optical Bench: The Backbone of the Chandra Observatory

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Sep 2009

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Chandra's First Decade of Discovery, Proceedings of the conference held 22-25 September, 2009 in Boston, MA. Edited by Scott Wo

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The Chandra Optical Bench is the large composite structure ever flown by NASA. This structure provides the critical metering system between the High Resolution Mirror Assembly (HRMA) and the Science Instruments (SI). The Optical Bench also had to with stand the Space Shuttle launch loads while maintaining the alignment between the HRMA and the SI's. This poster will show the integration and test of the Optical Bench at ITT.

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