Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE): Enabling the Next Generation of Large Space Observatories - NASA

Edward BalabanNASA ARC The future of space-based UV/optical/IR astronomy requires ever larger telescopes. The highest priority astrophysics targets, including Earth-like exoplanets, first generatio...

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Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE): Enabling the Next Generation of Large Space Observatories - NASA

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Edward BalabanNASA ARC The future of space-based UV/optical/IR astronomy requires ever larger telescopes. The highest priority astrophysics targets, including Earth-like exoplanets, first generation stars, and early galaxies, are all extremely faint, which presents an ongoing challenge for current missions and is the opportunity space for next generation telescopes: larger telescopes are the primary way to […]