C. Liebe, J. Burnham, R. Cook, B. Craig, T. Decker, D. Harp, B. Kecman, P. Meras, Michael Raffanti, C. Scholz, Christopher Smith, Jeff Waldman, James Wu
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Abstract
A metrology system designed and built for the NuSTAR mission is described. The NuSTAR mission is an orbiting X-ray telescope with a 10 meter focal length. The system consists of two laser pointers mounted rigidly together with a star tracker and the X-ray optics. The focused laser beams illuminates two metrology detectors mounted rigidly with the X-ray detectors. The detectors and optics/lasers are separated by a ∼10 meter deployable (and somewhat flexible) carbon fiber mast. Details about the implementation of the metrology system is discussed in this paper. 12