NASA installing new mirror-coating facility for SOFIA telescope

NASA is installing a new mirror-coating facility at its Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., for use on its planned airborne telescope, the space agency announced June 12. The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) must have the high-precision coating on its primary mirror...

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