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From: ankleand@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Andrew Karanicolas)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: HST mirror distortion
Message-ID: <4711@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>
Date: 29 Jun 90 21:40:04 GMT
References: <1062@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>
Reply-To: ankleand@mit-caf.UUCP (Andrew Karanicolas)
Organization: Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MIT
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In article <1062@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
<stuff deleted concerning mirror distortion from rough ride up on shuttle>

I was reading in the New York Times (June 28) that the distortion they observed
was "perfectly symmetrical, textbook case".  It sounds like the mirror design
itself is faulty.

Andy Karanicolas
MIT Microsystems Laboratory
ankleand@caf.mit.edu