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Terrestrial Planet Finder coronagraph status and enabling technologies

Ford, Virginia G.·Lisman, Douglas·Shaklan, Stuart B.·Ho, Timothy Y.·Kissil, Andrew·Kwack, Eug-Yun·Lowman, Andrew
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The goal of the Terrestrial Planet Finder Project Mission is to find life-bearing planets around nearby stars. Two types of instruments are competing for flight in 2015: a visible coronagraph and an infrared interferometer.

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Ford, Virginia G., Lisman, Douglas, Shaklan, Stuart B., Ho, Timothy Y., Kissil, Andrew, Kwack, Eug-Yun, Lowman, Andrew. 2004-04-01. Terrestrial Planet Finder coronagraph status and enabling technologies. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20060042728

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