Christopher J. Burrows

Missions and instruments

Forty years of telescopes

25 missions, instruments, studies and facilities, from Hipparcos and Hubble to JWST and the EUV Solar Telescope.

Flown in space

8

1980–84
Hipparcos
ESA astrometry satellite
End-to-end accuracy simulation at Logica UK
Launched 1989
1984–2000
Hubble Space Telescope (OTA)
NASA/ESA
ESA Telescope Scientist; OTA Handbook; first to diagnose the spherical aberration by phase retrieval
Launched 1990
1990–93
WF/PC and FOC
Hubble first-generation instruments
On-orbit imaging-performance analysis; FOC monitoring programme
Flown 1990–93
1990–93
COSTAR and the HST recovery
NASA
HST Strategy Panel member; aberration prescription behind the corrective optics
Installed 1993
1990–2000
WFPC2
NASA/JPL camera
Instrument Scientist; IDT member; handbook editor; commissioning and calibration
Installed 1993
1992–2002
Advanced Camera for Surveys
NASA camera
IDT member; inventor of the aberrated-beam coronagraph
Installed 2002
2010
JWST NIRCam
NASA/ESA/CSA
Cryogenic alignment at Lockheed Martin
Launched 2021
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NICER
NASA, International Space Station
Contributor
Launched 2017

In development

1

2020s
EUV Solar Telescope (EUVST)
JAXA-led, with NASA and ESA partners
Optical and programme reviews, Science Review Board
In development

Mission studies and proposals

9

Laboratory testbeds

1

2000–05
High Contrast Imaging Testbed
JPL
About 5×10⁻¹⁰ contrast, monochromatic
Operated

Ground-based telescopes

4

Review and advisory

2