New Worlds Observer: Minotaur to Ares V

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Aug 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008spie.7010e..57l&link_type=abstract

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter. Edited by Oschmann, Jacobus M., Jr.; de Graauw, M

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As currently envisioned, New Worlds Observer is a NASA flagship class mission, designed to fulfill the Terrestrial Planet Finding mission objectives with a much more flexible architecture than the current TPF design concepts. In this paper, we discuss the scalability of NWO for a variety of telescope sizes and briefly discuss the associated science capability. In particular, the paper will address in detail three mission categories: medium, large, and future mission concepts. Medium missions are missions with life cycle costs under $600 million dollars, including a version of NWO that may potentially fit within a MIDEX budget. Large missions are flagship missions that involve significant science returns on a Observatory class level; this is our current realization of NWO for the TPF mission. Future concepts use the NWO architecture, in conjunction with enabling technologies such as in-space servicing, to solve long-term NASA missions such as Lifefinder and Planet Imager. We present a multi-starshade NWO architecture designed for launch on an Ares V launch vehicle as an example of a future concept.

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