The 16-m ATLAS-Telescope Enabled by the Ares V Launch Vehicle

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Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21345005l&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #450.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.343

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The segmented mirror and deployable optics technologies developed for the James Webb Space Telescope enable a 6.5 meter diameter telescope to be folded for launch in the 5-meter diameter Ariane 5 payload fairing, and deployed autonomously after reaching orbit. Late in the next decade, when the Lunar Program's Ares V Cargo Launch Vehicle payload fairing becomes operational, even larger telescope can be placed in orbit. In this paper we present our concept for a 16.8-meter JWST derivative, chord-fold telescope which could be stowed in the 10-m diameter Ares V fairing, plus a description of the new technologies that enable ATLAST to be developed at an affordable price.

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