Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1998 · 15 citations · 0 references
Natural SciencesAerospace EngineeringAstronomyAstrophysicsOpticsObservatory InstrumentationTelescope OpticsOff-axis OpticsOptical Telescope SystemsOptical TelescopesTelescopes
In 1991 Carl Zeiss started a program to develop powerful telescopes for airborne and spaceborne earth-observation telescopes. This article summarizes some of the main result of this program. To emphasize the importance of these activities a short historical review was added.