Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Perkin-Elmer Corporation
- Summary
- This is the original mounting cradle and associated transport and maneuvering assembly used to hold the flight primary mirror for the Hubble Space Telescope during the manufacturing and testing process. This cradle was specially designed to hold the heavy but fragile mirror when moved among different locations during the manufacturing process. A wheeled transporter was custom designed to allow the cradle-mounted mirror to be moved about and to rotate it in the vertical plane.
- The assembly was manufactured by the Perkin Elmer Company. It was donated to NASM by NASA by Raytheon, the successor organization, in 2000. The cradle holds the backup Hubble Space Telescope Mirror. It was slightly modified for display.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the Raytheon Company through NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Inventory Number
- A20010288001
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Design, Manufacture, Test
- Materials
- Iron, Stainless Steel
- A20010288001D: Steel, Copper Alloy, Cadmium Plating, Stainless Steel, Adhesive, Foil, Paint, Plastic, Ink
- A20010288001E: Steel
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 279.4 × 152.4 × 304.8cm (11.0 × 6.0 × 10 ft.)
- Storage (A20010288001D&E): 64.8 × 64.8 × 41.6cm (25 1/2 × 25 1/2 × 16 3/8 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20010288001
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv97af24adb-bebe-4b1c-acd9-a8ae706205ce
