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Astronomical space telescopes with large apertures of various spectral ranges have become one of the main tools of exploring the Universe. Conventional technologies do not allow increasing the space telescope aperture above several meters. This article describes the conceptual design of an UV and IR On-orbit Assembling Space Telescope (OAST) with an aperture of 10 m. Unlike conventional space telescopes, the OAST will be modularly designed, manufactured, and then assembled and alignment in space.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The CIOMP team is grateful to Professor **u Shuang for academic advice, many years of engineering experience, and the innovative ideas and research works mentioned in this article.
We also are grateful to the Ministry of Science and Technology of China for supporting and contributing to the development of new optical telescopes.
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The works by the CIOMP were financially supported under China’s key program of research and developments, project no. 2016YFE0205000 of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.
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Boqian, X., Funan, Y., Shugarov, A.S. et al. Conceptual Design of the Chinese-Russian On-Orbit-Assembling Space Telescope (OAST). Sol Syst Res 54, 685–689 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0038094620070205
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0038094620070205