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electromagnetic telescope comparison table

Subject	has launch date	has reference	has orbital period	has latitude	has ground communication station	has altitude	has mounting manufacturer	has mirror maker	have orbit decay date	has temperature	has primary mirror shape	has element separation	has mirror diameter	has mirror type	has orbital inclination	has aperture	orbit	has launch vehicle	has optical design	has number of element	is a kind of	has attitude control	has mount	has longitude	has launch location	has secondary mirror shape	has definition	has element aperture	has approximately elliptical orbit
array telescope																					electromagnetic telescope						a telescope composed of an array of separete individual elements acting in concert
Earth based telescope				in degrees, minutes, seconds (N or S)		height above sea level in meters	the person, company or institution that constructed the mounting			ambient											electromagnetic telescope		designed to operate within a 1 g gravitational field	in degrees, minutes, seconds (E or W)			A telescope located on the surface of the Earth.
optical telescope		astroweb																			electromagnetic telescope
radio telescope		astroweb																			electromagnetic telescope						A device for gathering and amplifying radio energy typically by using a metallic dish antenna
reflector								the person, company or institution that created the mirror					equal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter)	material and other engineering details		or primary mirror diameter					electromagnetic telescope						A device for gathering and amplifying light or other energy by means of a mirror.
space telescope																	a more massive physical object				artificial satellite

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