The Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment - Coronagraph (PICTURE-C) mission will directly image debris disks and exozodiacal dust around nearby stars from a high-altitude balloon using a vector vortex coronagraph. The first flight of PICTURE-C was recently rescheduled by NASA for September, 2019. This paper describes preparations for the first flight of PICTURE-C, including the final mission design, flight integration process and observation plan. Laboratory measurements of the low-order wavefront control system and coronagraph performance are also presented.
The PICTURE-C exoplanetary direct imaging balloon mission: first flight preparation
Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets IX ; 2019 ; San Diego,California,United States
Proc. SPIE ; 11117
2019-09-09
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Stationkeeping for an Occulter-Based Exoplanetary Imaging Mission (AAS 10-034)
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