Left: 8-meter monolithic mirror telescope (credit: MSFC Advanced Concepts Office)
Right: 16-meter segmented mirror telescope (credit: Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems & NASA/STScI)
Scientific Articles
- ATLAST: Characterizing Habitable Worlds (Postman et al. 2009)
- The Future of Direct Supermassive Black Hole Mass Estimates (Batcheldor & Koekemoer 2009)
June 2010 SPIE Meeting Papers
NASA RFI Response on Servicing Future Space Observatories (Jan 2010)
- Feasibility of Using Human Spaceflight or Robotic Missions for Servicing Existing and Future Spacecraft (Postman et al.)
- Servicing ATLAST (9.2m design) (Oegerle et al.)
January 2010 AAS Meeting Posters
- Science Cases for ATLAST (Postman et al.)
- Active Space Telescope Systems: A New Paradigm (Unwin et al.)
- A 16-m ATLAST Mission Design (Lillie et al.)
- An 8-m ATLAST Mission Design (Stahl et al.)
- An All-Reflective Integral Field Spectrograph for Far UV Astrophysics (Kendrick et al.)
- ATLAST 9.2: A Deployable Large Aperture UVOIR Space Telescope (Oegerle et al.)
January 2009 AAS Meeting Posters
- The Science Case for an 8-m to 16-m ATLAS Telescope
- Wavefront Sensing & Control for a Large Segmented Space Telescope (D. Redding, et al.)
- Design of an 8-meter Monolithic UVOIR Space Telescope (Stahl et al.)
- Gigapixel Focal Plane Arrays for UVOIR Space Telescopes (Ebbets et al.)
- Conceptual Design for a 16-m Segmented UVOIR Space Telescope (Korechoff et al.)
- Evaluation of Internal Coronagraph Techniques for a Segmented Space Telescope (Krist et al.)
October 2008 "Future of UV Astronomy" Workshop (Annapolis)
Ultraviolet Astronomy Beyond 2020 (M. Postman & M. Mountain)
June 2008 SPIE Meeting Papers
- Science with an 8-m to 16-m ATLAS Telescope (Postman et al.)
- Active Optics for a 16-meter ATLAS Telescope (Redding et al.)
- Design Study for an 8-m monolithic mirror ATLAS Telescope (Stahl)
October 2007 Submitted NASA ASMC Proposal
Submitted Proposal to NASA's Astrophysics Strategic Mission Concept Study NRA
Focal Plane Layout for 8-m concept
(similar to that for 16-m except that 8-m layout covers twice the angular scale)
Deployment Sequence for a 16-meter segmented telescope:
- 16m observatory deployment animation (.wmv format)
- 16m observatory deployment animation (.mov format)
ATLAST Reports & News
NRC Reports Related to ATLAST
Launching Science: Science Opportunities Provided by NASA's Constellation System
ATLAST in the News
- Jan 2009: NASA Press Release on Ares V Science Payload Capabilties
- Apr 2009: Astronomy Magazine Article
- Apr 2010: Bigger, Better Space Telescopes to Eclipse Hubble
Other Large Space Telescope Concept Studies
- European Ultraviolet Visible Observatory (EUVO) - 8m class telescope [2013]
- 20-m Modular Assembled Space Telescope (Feinberg et al.) [2013]
- 30-m Assembled Space Telescope (Oegerle et al.) [2007]
- Modern Universe Space Telescope (MUST) - 10m class telescope [2005]
- Space UV - Optical Telescope (SUVO) - 4m class telescope [1999]
