Kepler Optics Advance at Ball Aerospace
Credit: BALL AEROSPACE
Ball Aerospace expects to begin integrating NASA's Kepler planet-finding spacecraft in August, and has already bonded this Schmidt Corrector to the mounting ring that will hold it about 3 meters in front of the 1.4-meter primary light-gathering mirror. There it will correct spherical aberration in...
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