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Herschel’s telescope
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- Title Herschel’s telescope
- Released 19/09/2007 9:22 am
- Copyright Astrium (P. Dumas)
- Description
The Herschel telescope is a classic Cassegrain design with a 3.5-metre primary mirror and the secondary mirror. The manufacture, alignment and optical characterisation down to operational temperatures (70 K or -203 ºC) was completed in September 2006.
The telescope is now stored in the Astrium facilities in Toulouse waiting for integration to the Herschel satellite.
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- Activity Space Science , Space Engineering
- Mission Herschel
- Keywords Spacecraft engineering , Instruments
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