Fringe tracking in the StarLight formation interferometer testbed

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4852, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 818-826

  Wehmeier, Udo J ^a   Liewer, Kurt M ^a   Shields, Joel ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

FIT; Formation flying; Interferometry; ST3; Starlight

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

FORMATION INTERFEROMETER TESTBED; STELLAR INTERFEROMETER; TERRESTRIAL PLANET FINDER;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0037612432     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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