Creating an optical space telescope observatory capable of detecting and characterizing light from extra-solar terrestrial planets poses technical challenges related to extreme wavefront stability. The Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph design team has been developing an observatory based on trade studies, modeling and analysis that has guided us towards design choices to enable this challenging mission. This paper will describe the current flight baseline design of the observatory and the trade studies that have been performed. The modeling and analysis of this design will be described including predicted performance and the tasks yet to be done.


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    Title :

    Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph Observatory summary


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Direct Imaging of Exoplanets : Science and Techniques ; 2004 ; Nice, France


    Publication date :

    2005-10-03


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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