NPS' Other Working Satellite Lab - the Segmented Mirror Telescope (IMAGE)

Naval Postgraduate School

NPS' Other Working Satellite Lab - the Segmented Mirror Telescope

Caption

FLTSATCOM is not the only functioning satellite laboratory on the NPS campus. In 2010, NPS acquired this six-panel, 3-meter-diameter segmented mirror space telescope to conduct research into advanced adaptive optics. 

Credit

(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Shawn J. Stewart)

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