Terrestrial Planet Finder
(TPF)
(plan for space telescopes to find smaller exoplanets)
The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) was a NASA plan for
one or more spacecraft designed to find extra-solar planets.
One version of the plan was for multiple telescopes, possibly on
separate spacecraft to function as an interferometer.
Another was for a single larger telescope, larger than
HST, with a coronagraph to block starlight.
Congress postponed further funding 2007 and NASA
canceled the project in 2011.
(telescope,reflector,space,exoplanets,NASA,plan,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Planet_Finder
https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/projects/TPF/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002SPIE.4835...79S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007SPIE.6687E..19L/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005astro.ph..5102K/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3200
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