Gianine Figliozzi

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FLUTE aims to find out if giant lenses and mirrors – the high-quality optical components needed for future large-aperture space telescopes – can be created from liquids in space.

What Is the Fluidic Telescope?

What is the Fluidic Telescope?

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Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE): Enabling the Next Generation of Large Space Observatories

Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE)

The Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE) project team, jointly led by NASA and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, envisions a way to make huge circular self-healing mirrors in-orbit to further the field of astronomy. Larger telescopes collect more light, and they allow astronomers to peer farther into space and see distant objects in greater detail.

Goodbye mirrors, hello diffractive lenses

A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb

The Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE) project team envisions a way to make huge circular self-healing mirrors in-orbit to further the field of astronomy.

The NASA Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE) Project

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Researchers have developed a new way to use femtosecond laser pulses to fabricate the high-precision ultrathin mirrors required for high-performance X-ray telescopes. The technique could help improve the space-based X-ray telescopes used to capture high-energy cosmic events involved in forming new stars and supermassive black holes.