An astronaut, part of the recent private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) American space habitat company Axiom Space, is set to test the making of a liquid telescope mirror in space.NASA s Fluidic Telescope Experiment (FLUTE) is .
An astronaut, part of the recent private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) American space habitat company Axiom Space, is set to test the making of a liquid telescope mirror in space.
Ax-1 s Mission Specialist Eytan Stibbe will perform the Fluidic Telescope Experiment (FLUTE), on behalf of NASA and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, investigating the use of liquids to construct telescope lenses in microgravity.