New optical technologies have revolutionized astronomy, from the invention of the telescope 400 years ago to more recent developments of adaptive optics and segmented mirrors. The next disruptive ...

Boasting a massive 34-foot-wide (10.4-meter-wide) segmented mirror, the Gran Telescopio Canarias is currently the largest optical-infrared telescope in the world. The enormous telescope is perched ...

These telescopes utilize segmented mirrors, which consist of multiple smaller mirrors working together to form a larger effective aperture. One of the critical challenges in operating these ...

Considering a frozen-flow turbulence model, we analyze the residual atmosphere speckle lifetimes in a MagAO-X-like AO system as well as 25–39 m giant segmented mirror telescope scale systems. We find ...

Future telescopes like James Webb and Gaia face hurdles in maintenance due to their remote location at the Lagrange Point L2, nearly a million miles from Earth. James Webb’s segmented mirrors ...

The demonstrator used a KUKA KMR robot, endowed with a KUKA iiwa arm, for manipulating the segmented mirror tiles through the HOTDOCK ... to turn into reality the ambition of creating a large ...