On-Orbit Experience with the Spitzer Space Telescope Optical System

Erick T. Young

doi:10.1364/FIO.2005.FTuL3

Frontiers in Optics
OSA Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2005),
paper FTuL3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2005.FTuL3

On-Orbit Experience with the Spitzer Space Telescope Optical System

Erick T. Young

Frontiers in Optics 2005

Tucson, Arizona United States
16–21 October 2005
ISBN: 1-55752-797-0

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Laser and Optical Systems for Astronomy and Space-Based Instrumentation I (FTuL)

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Abstract

The Spitzer Space Telescope operates at wavelengths between 3.6 and 160 microns. This paper describes the on-orbit performance of the beryllium optical system which was launched warm and radiatively cooled to cryogenic temperatures.

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