Terrestrial planet finder: Technology development plans

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1226-1233

  Lindensmith, Chris ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS FORMATION FLYING SENSOR; FORMATION CONTROL TESTBED (FCT); INFRARED THERMOMETERS; TERRESTRIAL PLANET FINDER (TPF);

ALGORITHMS; BIOMARKERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PLANETS; SPACECRAFT; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 10044280671     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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