Building Huge Telescopes in Space Using Robots

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Jan 18, 201900:58:43Science & Medicine

Astronomy’s Future Will Be Built: New Capabilities to Assemble in Space the Largest Observatories. Scientific performance of telescopes depend strongly upon the observatory’s aperture, its capability to collect faint lig...

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