The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) missions has as its goal the detection and characterization of earth-like planets around nearby stars. NASA is currently funding a number of small studies to look at the trade-offs in the design of TPF. The possible trade-offs include orbit location (1 to 5 AU), aperture size (6 to 1.5m), physically connected baselines or separated spacecraft flying in close formation.


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    Title :

    The Terrestrial Planet Finder


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    Publication date :

    1997-04-24


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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