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SOFIA Activities
in Germany
NASA's SOFIA partner, the German Aerospace
Center, or DLR,
is making significant progress on a wide variety of telescope assembly
components.
Under DLR oversight, SOFIA's telescope
is being designed and constructed in Germany by MAN
Technologie and Kayser-Threde (KT).
DLR will provide approximately 20 percent of the operational support
for SOFIA, and German scientists will have access to approximately
20 percent of SOFIA's observing time.
The drawing below shows the entire
telescope assembly:
(click on image for larger view)
Telescope assembly (Courtesy of DLR)
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