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Paul,
It is the same guys this time . K.U. is on this project with some other university partners including a private company that is actually Peter Chen and Romeo . Not having any inside information, it looks as if Chen and Romeo are just chasing project funding and grant money from whatever sources they can manage to further their technology . best regards, matt tudor "Astro-nut" wrote in message oups.com... Extremely light weight, collapsable (yes... you read that correctly) carbon fiber replication mirrors have been around for a while. In his 2001 presentation at Stellafane, Dr. Peter Chen shared the results of the technology at that time. He was then working on a 52" primary that weighed in at 27 pounds. Up to 50 mirrors could be made between cleanings of the precision mandrils: http://www.astro-nut.com/stchen.html Cheers, Paul --- http://www.astro-nut.com --- |
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