Systems engineering for the kepler mission: A search for terrestrial planets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5497, Issue , 2004, Pages 16-27

  Duren, Riley ^a   Dragon, Karen ^a   Gunter, Steve ^a   Gautier, Nick ^a   Bachtell, Eric ^b   Peters, Dan ^b   Harvey, Adam ^b   Enos, Alan ^b   Koch, Dave ^c   Borucki, Bill ^c   Sobeck, Charlie ^c   Mayer, Dave ^c   Jenkins, Jon ^d   Thompson, Rick ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Extra solar planets; Kepler mission; Performance modeling; Systems engineering; Validation verification

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; PHOTOMETRY; PLANETS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPACECRAFT; VIBRATING CONVEYORS;

EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETS; KEPLER MISSION; PERFORMANCE MODELING; VALIDATION; VERIFICATION;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 19944426304     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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