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Micropositioning systems to aid space
studies
Physik Instrumente has been awarded a contract by Vertex Antenna Systems to provide 25 six-axis hexapod alignment systems and motion controllers.
Physik Instrumente (PI) has been awarded a contract by Vertex Antenna Systems, a daughter of General Dynamics C4 Systems, to provide 25 six-axis hexapod alignment systems and motion controllers Each of the custom high-precision micropositioning systems will be employed to align the secondary reflectors in one of the 12m telescopes that make up the North American portion of the Atacama Large Millimetre Array Project (ALMA) radio telescope
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 25 Feb 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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PI was chosen as a supplier for the secondary alignment systems, because of its long track record with designing and manufacturing astronomical hexapods, actuators and active optics.
In the last two decades, PI systems have been employed in a number of astronomical telescopes, for example in Hawaii, Chile, South Africa and the Canary Islands. Request free introductory details about products from Lambda Photometrics ...
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