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Old 13-04-2022, 01:53 PM
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Interesting way of producing lenses in microgravity

https://petapixel.com/2022/04/06/nas...-size-of-webb/

The most interesting thing is that they managed to do it on earth by matching densities of the containing and injected liquids, and the result is a lens that has better optical precision than one that had been ground using traditional methods.

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