• → European Space Agency

      • Space for Europe
      • Space News
      • Space in Images
      • Space in Videos

    • About Us

      • Welcome to ESA
      • DG's News and Views
      • For Member State Delegations
      • Business with ESA
      • ESA Exhibitions
      • ESA Publications
      • Careers at ESA

    • Our Activities

      • Space News
      • Observing the Earth
      • Human Spaceflight
      • Launchers
      • Navigation
      • Space Science
      • Space Engineering
      • Operations
      • Technology
      • Telecommunications & Integrated Applications

    • For Public

    • For Media

      • Media
      • ESA TV
      • Videos for professionals
      • Photos

    • For Educators

    • For Kids

    • ESA

    • Space in Images

    ESA > Space in Images > 2010 > 07 > SiC mirror for Gaia mission

    Free Search (10912 images)

    • Recently Added
    • Advanced Search

    SiC mirror for Gaia mission

    (161.27 kB)
    Views: 5
    Rating: 0.00/5 (0 votes cast)

    Rate this Image

    • Currently 0 out of 5 Stars.
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

    Thank you for rating!

    You have already rated this page, you can only rate it once!

    Your rating has been changed, thanks for rating!

    Share this Image

    Post to Facebook Post to MySpace Post to Delicious Post to Digg Post to Twitter

    Details

    Open/Close
    • Title SiC mirror for Gaia mission
    • Released 28/07/2010 1:59 pm
    • Copyright AMOS
    • Description

      The Gaia M5 mirror undergoing inspection at the premises of Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (AMOS) in Liege, Belgium, in November 2009.


      The 540 × 336 mm mirror was fabricated from sintered silicon carbide (SiC) by Boostec at Bazet near Tarbes, France.

      The mirror surface was coated with a layer of silicon carbide using chemical vapour deposition (CVD). The CVD layer of all Gaia mirrors is applied by Schunk Kohlenstofftechnik in Heuchelheim, Germany.


    TAGS

    Open/Close
    • Click on the tags to find the matching images.

    TAGS

    Open/Close

    Details

    Open/Close

    RELATED IMAGES

    • FIRST prototype mirror
      FIRST prototype mirror
      Released: 01/01/1998
      Rating
    • Gaia payload module integration
      Gaia payload module integration
      Released: 17/09/2012
      Rating

    Connect with us

    • RSS
    • Youtube
    • Twitter
    • Flickr
    • Google Buzz
    • Facebook
    • Livestream
    • Subscribe
    • App Store
    • LATEST ARTICLES
    • · Rare merger reveals secrets of g…
    • · Watching for hazards: ESA opens …
    • · ESA astronaut Timothy Peake set …
    • · Space drives e-mobility
    • · Proba-V opens its eyes

    • FAQ

    • Jobs at ESA

    • Site Map

    • Contacts

    • Terms and conditions