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Pandora Telescope Isolation Systems Engineering Project

Panas, Cynthia·Siegel, Larry
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The collective imagination of humanity has always been captured by the possibility of other habitable planets. Only with recent advances in spacecraft and our understanding of astrophysics, has it become possible to study the atmospheres of planets orbiting stars other than our sun, also known as extrasolar planets or exoplanets. We know from the Keplar Space telescope, launched in the early 1990s, that there are more planets than stars in the Milky Way. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, will continue the search for exoplanets outside our solar system. Two other well know telescopes with the capability to study exoplanets are the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Together they provide full spectral coverage to do short deep dives into planets of interest, but tasking these satellites is both expensive and hard to obtain. A new mission dedicated to the characterization of exoplanets and the stars they orbit is needed to fill the gap.

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Panas, Cynthia, Siegel, Larry. 2021-06-15. Pandora Telescope Isolation Systems Engineering Project. https://doi.org/10.2172/1788330

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