The technology of DARWIN

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Oct 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003esasp.539...41k&link_type=abstract

In: Proceedings of the Conference on Towards Other Earths: DARWIN/TPF and the Search for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets, 22-25 A

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Extrasolar Planets

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DARWIN is an optical space interferometer, and a cornerstone mission in the Scientific Satellites Programme of ESA, with a foreseen launch in 2015. It has the ambitious mission objectives of: a) detection and analysis of planets orbiting nearby stars, searching for earth-like conditions and life and b) high resolution imaging by aperture synthesis. The mission is implemented on several free-flying telescope spacecraft and one beam-combining spacecraft, possibility augmented by a spacecraft dedicated to ground communication and metrology. The beam combiner and the telescope spacecraft fly in one plane with the telescope spacecraft at equal distance from the beam combiner. The resolution of the interferometer is adjusted by changing the inter-satellite distance.

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