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The technology plan for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF-I) describes the breadth of technology development currently envisaged to enable TPF-I to search for habitable worlds around nearby stars.
The StarLight mission is designed to validate the technologies of formation flying and stellar interferometry in space. The mission consists of two spacecraft in an earth-trailing orbit that formation fly over relative ranges of 40 to 600 m to an accuracy of 10 cm.
The control of longitudinal dispersion, which determines the position of the null fringe as a function of wavelength is central to the problem of producing deep broadband interferometric nulls.
In this paper, the gauge construction details, the results of the gauge accuracy tests as well as the final path-length modulator performance details are presented.
We investigate how the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) will be able to meet its instrument astrometric pointing requirements.
This paper focuses specifically on passive structural damping with the goal to lower the control demand on active optics.
The proposed New Millenium Interferometry consists of three spacecraft separated by up to several kilometers. A heterodyne laser metrology system is proposed to measure the relative distances between the spacecraft.