Enabling Concepts for a Dual Spacecraft Formation-Flying Optical Interferometer for NASA's ST3 Mission
The last 15 years has seen considerable progress in the conception and development of ideas for multi-spacecraft optical interferometers.
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The last 15 years has seen considerable progress in the conception and development of ideas for multi-spacecraft optical interferometers.
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We report on the laboratory demonstration of an active linear metrology scheme using two separate lasers.
This paper describes Instrument Control Electronics (ICE) for the Space Technology Three mission. This mission is a dual-spacecraft formation-flying Michelson interferometer designed to perform the first long-baseline optical interferometry in space.
StarLight, a NASA/JPL mission originally scheduled for launch in 2006, proposed to fly a two spacecraft visible light stellar interferometer. In this paper we present our status and review progress towards fringe tracking on a moving collector target.