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Nicolas Lee , Paul Backes , Joel W. Burdick , Sergio Pellegrino , Christine Fuller , Kristina Hogstrom , Brett Kennedy , Jung-Gon Kim , Rudranarayan Mukherjee , Carl Seubert , Yen-Hung Wu ·

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An architecture and conceptual design for a robotically assembled, modular space telescope (RAMST) that enables extremely large space telescopes to be conceived is presented. The distinguishing features of the RAMST architecture compared with prior concepts include the use of a modular deployable structure, a general-purpose robot, and advanced metrology, with the option of formation flying. To demonstrate the feasibility of the robotic assembly concept, we present a reference design using the RAMST architecture for a formation flying 100-m telescope that is assembled in Earth orbit and operated at the Sun–Earth Lagrange Point 2.

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