This overview paper is a progress report about the system design and technology development of two interferometer concepts studied for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) project. The two concepts are a structurally-connected interferometer (SCI) intended to fulfill minimum TPF science goals and a formation-flying interferometer (FFI) intended to fulfill full science goals. Described are major trades, analyses, and technology experiments completed. Near term plans are also described. This paper covers progress since August 2003 and serves as an update to a paper presented at that month's SPIE conference, 'Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets.


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    Title :

    Terrestrial Planet Finder Interferometer: Architecture, Mission Design and Technology Development


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SPIE Conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation ; 2004 ; Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom


    Publication date :

    2004-06-21


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English