{"id":10521,"date":"2013-12-11T08:05:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=10521"},"modified":"2013-12-11T08:05:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:05:50","slug":"a-giant-space-telescope-made-from-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/11\/a-giant-space-telescope-made-from-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"A giant space telescope made from plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I\u2019d call a <a href=\"http:\/\/thepicturecoach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/RODMAR_E_10.jpg\">600mm lens<\/a> big\u2014but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/12\/5\/5179666\/darpa-creating-giant-folding-space-telescope-from-plastic-wrap-like\">this bad boy<\/a> dwarfs even the Hubble:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>DARPA says the MOIRE program is currently in its &#8220;second and final phase,&#8221; and has already been prototyped. When completed, such optical systems could result in more powerful telescopes that fit in smaller rockets and shuttles, with eventual use in tracking weather systems or for reconnaissance. Here&#8217;s a clip explaining more about how it works:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DARPA MOIRE Concept Video\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q5oqle9Ct4Q?start=81&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q5oqle9Ct4Q#t=81\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I\u2019d call a 600mm lens big\u2014but this bad boy dwarfs even the Hubble:\u00a0 DARPA says the MOIRE program is currently in its &#8220;second and final phase,&#8221; and has already been prototyped. When completed, such optical systems could result in more powerful telescopes that fit in smaller rockets and shuttles, with eventual use in tracking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}