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The „Five-hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope“ (FAST) can deform its wiremesh mirror to target different directions and to remove the spherical aberrat
by _Microft 5y ago
The „Five-hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope“ (FAST) can deform its wiremesh mirror to target different directions and to remove the spherical aberration issue by turning the surface shape into a paraboloid.
If that’s possible for a robotically constructed and maintained structure is more than questionable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_...