[Interview] Are Membrane Telescopes The Future of Space-Based Astronomy?

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🟣 Guest: Dr. Sebastian Rabien

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📜 Membrane Space Telescope: Active Surface Control with Radiative Adaptive Optics

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.07741

00:00 Intro

02:27 Adaptive optics in space

05:17 Membrane-based telescopes

22:48 Taking membrane telescopes to space

32:54 A practical next step

34:02 Questions from patrons

36:54 Working with ELT

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