Future space astronomy missions

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Sep 1981

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Technical News, vol. 9, Sept. 1981, p. 39-47.

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Hubble Space Telescope, Mission Planning, Radio Astronomy, Spaceborne Astronomy, Technological Forecasting, X Ray Astronomy, Angular Resolution, H Ii Regions, High Resolution, Large Deployable Reflector, Quasars, Seyfert Galaxies, Space Platforms, Spectroheliographs, X Ray Sources

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Six space astronomy systems planned for the 1990s are discussed. These include: (1) the Large Area Modular Array of Reflectors (LAMAR), which will conduct searches and flux measurements for X-ray sources, quasars, Seyferts and radio galaxies and employs either Kirkpatrick-Baez or Wolter X-ray telescope optics; (2) the Solar Soft X-ray Telescope Facility (SSXTF), to be deployed aboard Spacelab, which will conduct high-resolution spectroheliogram and line-profile studies over the 1.7-300 A wavelength range; (3) the Very Large Space Telescope (VLST), with an 8 m primary mirror whose 0.02 arcsec angular resolution at 632 nm is sufficient to resolve H II regions in clusters as much as 100 Mpc away; (4) the Coherent Optical System of Modular Imaging Collectors (COSMIC), whose angular resolution would be equivalent to that of a 36-m-diam telescope; (5) the Large Deployable Reflector (LDR), a multiple-segment telescope operating in the 2-1000 micron range; and (6) the Space Science Platform, incorporating an array of instruments covering the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

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