AFRL creates thin, flexible mirror for future space applications

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate has built a lightweight, one-meter mirror out of an ultra-thin material that could one day be used to build much larger mirrors for space-based surveillance and astronomy, AFRL announced Aug. 18. Rather than using glass, the...

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