1 Meter CFRP Telescope

CMA has the 1m carbon fiber telescope in Tucson. The mandrel for fabricating the parabolic mirror is being finished to l/4 p-v accuracy, which should be finished by fall 2010. Plans are in place to produce a deployable  (trailer mounted) system from the former ULTRA Telescope. The telescope employs a piezo driven hexapod secondary mirror actuation. The weight of the f/7.6 classical Cassegrain telescope with optics is 175lbs (88kg).



1m CFRP Complete Optical Telescope (above) bottom left shows final hyperbolic secondary mirror, bottom right shows the coated 1m parabolic primary mirror.