[Interview] Are Membrane Telescopes The Future of Space-Based Astronomy?

🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🟣 Guest: Dr. Sebastian Rabien https://www.mpe.mpg.de/person/18090/2169 📜 Membrane Space Telescope: Active Surface Control with Radiative Adaptive Optics https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.07741 00:00 Intro 02:27 Adaptive optics in space 05:17 Membrane-based telescopes 22:48 Taking membrane telescopes to space 32:54 A practical next step 34:02 Questions from patrons 36:54 Working with ELT 44:30 More interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/36t-UGXfllk 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast