NASA NTRS · 20050156195
Kepler Mission Design
Abstract
The Kepler Mission is in the development phase with launch planned for 2007. The mission goal first off is to reliably detect a significant number of Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. The mission design allows for exploring the diversity of planetary sizes, orbital periods, stellar spectral types, etc. In this paper we describe the technical approach taken for the mission design; describing the flight and ground system, the detection methodology, the photometer design and capabilities, and the way the data are taken and processed. (For Stellar Classification program. Finally the detection capability in terms of planet size and orbit are presented as a function of mission duration and stellar type.
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Koch, David, Borucki, William, Lissauer, J., Mayer, David, Voss, Janice, Basri, Gibor, Gould, Alan, Brown, Timothy, Cockran, William, Caldwell, Douglas. 2005-01-01. Kepler Mission Design. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20050156195
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