Current status of the TPF formation flying interferometer concept

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 296-307

  Miller, Daniel ^a   Fischer, David ^a  

^a BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYOGENICS; INFRARED IMAGING; INTERFEROMETRY; OBSERVATORIES; PLANETS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SPACECRAFT;

CORONAGRAPHY; MID-INFRARED NULLING; TERRESTRIAL PLANET FINDER (TPF) PROGRAM; THERMAL DESIGNS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 11144296387     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.549896     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. The TPF Science Working Group, "Feasibility of a Planet Finder Mission", The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF): A NASA Origins Program to Search for Habitable Planets, C. Beichman, N. Woolf, C. Lindensmith, pp 103, 108, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1999.
2. Blackwood, G., et al, "Scope and Objectives of the Terrestrial Planet Finder Interferometer Study," SPIE Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exo-Planets, Paper 5170-29, San Diego, CA, 4-8 August 2003.