Team Members
Jack Dalton
Eric Sonheim
Jiwhan Kim
Shenyijie Xiang
Supervisors
Christopher Muir, PhD, Mechanical Engineering, UR. Laura Slane, PhD, Mechanical Engineering, UR.
Customers
Leslie Johnson, Engineer III, L3Harris Technologies
Description
A mounted secondary mirror for application in a space telescope is designed to optimize wavefront error, mass, and dynamic response for launch survival and on-orbit performance. Additionally, the mirror’s behavior during launch, deployment, and operation in near subzero temperatures is analyzed.
Without Optical Surface
With Optical Surface