Achieved maturation of key component-level technologies to enable large, segmented apertures in an ultra-stable optical architecture

Laura E. Coyle; Tyler McCracken; Laurent Pueyo; Remi Soummer; Matthew East; Jonathan Arenberg; Bob Hellekson; Todd Lawton; Marcel Bluth; James R. Tucker; Sang Park; Michael Eisenhower; Benjamin Cromey; Jeremy Shugrue; Joseph Ho; Jake Crouse; Alex Klein; Dustin Putnam; Brian Hicks; Randy Abbott; Bruce Hardy; Ananya Sahoo; Iva Laginja; Sean Brennan; Colin Kingsley; Vincent Tagliamonti; Vera Versteeg; David Stewart; Laurie Hill; Michael Lesczynski; Sze Chaung

doi:10.1117/12.3014539

23 August 2024 Achieved maturation of key component-level technologies to enable large, segmented apertures in an ultra-stable optical architecture

Laura E. Coyle, Tyler McCracken, Laurent Pueyo, Remi Soummer, Matthew East, Jonathan Arenberg, Bob Hellekson, Todd Lawton, Marcel Bluth, James R. Tucker, Sang Park, Michael Eisenhower, Benjamin Cromey, Jeremy Shugrue, Joseph Ho, Jake Crouse, Alex Klein, Dustin Putnam, Brian Hicks, Randy Abbott, Bruce Hardy, Ananya Sahoo, Iva Laginja, Sean Brennan, Colin Kingsley, Vincent Tagliamonti, Vera Versteeg, David Stewart, Laurie Hill, Michael Lesczynski, Sze Chaung

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Proceedings Volume 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 130921K (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3014539
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory will consist of a segmented telescope and high contrast coronagraph to characterize exoplanets for habitability. Achieving this objective requires an ultra-stable telescope with wavefront stability of picometers in certain critical modes. The NASA funded Ultra-Stable Large Telescope Research and Analysis – Technology Maturation program has matured key component-level technologies in 10 areas spanning an “ultra-stable” architecture, including active components like segment edge sensors, actuators and thermal hardware, passive components like low distortion mirrors and stable structures, and supporting capabilities like precision metrology. This paper will summarize the final results from the four-year ULTRA-TM program, including advancements in performance and/or path-to-flight readiness, TRL/MRL maturation, and recommendations for future work.

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Laura E. Coyle, Tyler McCracken, Laurent Pueyo, Remi Soummer, Matthew East, Jonathan Arenberg, Bob Hellekson, Todd Lawton, Marcel Bluth, James R. Tucker, Sang Park, Michael Eisenhower, Benjamin Cromey, Jeremy Shugrue, Joseph Ho, Jake Crouse, Alex Klein, Dustin Putnam, Brian Hicks, Randy Abbott, Bruce Hardy, Ananya Sahoo, Iva Laginja, Sean Brennan, Colin Kingsley, Vincent Tagliamonti, Vera Versteeg, David Stewart, Laurie Hill, Michael Lesczynski, and Sze Chaung "Achieved maturation of key component-level technologies to enable large, segmented apertures in an ultra-stable optical architecture", Proc. SPIE 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 130921K (23 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3014539

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