The StarLight mission: A formation-flying stellar interferometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4852, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 463-480

  Blackwood, Gary ^a   Lay, Oliver ^a   Deininger, William ^b   Ahmed, Asif ^a   Duren, Riley ^a   Noecker, Charley ^b   Barden, Brian ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

Formation flying control; Formation flying sensor; Heterodyne metrology; Stellar interferometry

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; SENSORS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT;

FORMATION-FLYING CONTROL; FORMATION-FLYING SENSOR; STELLAR INTERFEROMETRY; TERRESTRIAL PLANET FINDER;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0038287927     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460942     Document Type: Conference Paper

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