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The past decade of ZERODUR glass-ceramics in space applications

Krieg, Janina; Carré, Antoine; Döhring, Thorsten +4 more

For the past four decades, ZERODUR® glass ceramics has flown on many satellites including the prominent space missions METEOSAT, Hubble Space Telescope, CHANDRA, and LISA pathfinder. Firstly, this unique material is chosen as mirror substrate for high precision optics due to its extreme thermal stability. Its near-zero thermal expansion over a wid…