NASA has decided to move forward with two complementary Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) missions, a visible coronagraph and an infrared formation flying interferometer in collaboration with ESA. These missions are major missions in the NASA Office of Space Science Origins Theme. The primary science objectives of the TPF missions are to search for, detect, and characterize planets and planetary systems beyond our own Solar System, including specifically Earth-like planets.
NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder missions
Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescopes ; 2004 ; United States
Proc. SPIE ; 5487
2004-10-12
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder Missions
NTRS | 2004
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