Hunter Rouillard, an undergraduate student at Rochester Polytechnic University, flattens a holographic grating that is the primary light collector for the MOST telescope. New York Space Grant funded an initiation grant to prototype this game changing telescope.
Read MoreVictoria Butler, a New York Space Grant NASA Fellow at RIT (left), is shown with Caltech grad student Yun-Ting (center), and TIME PI Abby Crites (right) covering one input to the detectors in a material called Mylar. This will help prevent stray radio frequency signals from reaching the instrument.
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