SARAL – Laser Retro-reflector Array
French/Indian
The LRA is a passive instrument on-board a satellite composed of 9 corner cubes reflecting a laser beam back to earth to determine its position. It was part of the SARAL satellite payload and launched on XXXXXX.[row] [span8]
Altitude measurement precision of a few...
Manufacturing (lightening, polishing, coating) of the 3 mirrors composing the Korch-type telescope. Le largest mirror is aspherical with a diameter of 700mm and a roughness below 5 Å on the whole surface. The others are hyperbolic and elliptic...