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Herschel Telescope

Herschel Telescope


Date: 16 May 2008
Satellite: Herschel
Depicts: Telescope
Location: Cleanroom at ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Copyright: ESA

Close-up of the Herschel flight model telescope with the large 3.5-metre diameter primary mirror and the smaller secondary mirror on its hexapod support structure. The blue wiring is a cable harness connecting the secondary mirror and its supporting structure (hexapod) to a set of motion sensors (accelerometers) that will be used during the upcoming vibration testing of the spacecraft.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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