AXAF mirrors ahead of schedule

POLISHING AND MEASUREMENT of the eight mirrors for the Advanced X-Ray Facility (AXAF), to be deployed by the Space Shuttle in September 1998, have been completed ahead of schedule at Hughes Danbury Optical Systems. The TRW-built AXAF will follow the Compton gamma-ray observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope in NASA's ...

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