Terrestrial planet finder interferometer: Architecture, mission design and technology development

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 265-274

  Henry, Curt ^a   Lay, Oliver ^a   Aung, Mimi ^a   Gunter, Steven M ^a   Dubovitsky, Serge ^a   Blackwood, Gary ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenic structures; Formation flying; Interferometry; Nulling; Terrestrial planets

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC STRUCTURES; FORMATION-FLYING; NULLING; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS;

ASTRONOMY; CRYOGENICS; DESIGN; INFRARED IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PLANETS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SURVEYS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 11144290783     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552345     Document Type: Conference Paper

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