New Worlds Technology for this Decade: AAS Evening Session
^6:30-8:00 pm, Tuesday, 10 January 2012^
^NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology^
This evening session will review the current state-of-the-art in exoplanet technology and its possible implementation in new smaller mission concepts. A central theme in NASA’s science planning is the search for habitable worlds and life beyond our Solar System. Although Earth-like planets would not yet be detectable with current technology, starlight suppression now approaches flight readiness for missions that would image exozodiacal dust around nearby stars and characterize Jupiter-like exoplanets. Mission concepts of various scales based on coronagraph and starshades will be described along with their science objectives and technology requirements.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology^
^Agenda^
6:30 PM |
Introduction & Session Overview |
Peter Lawson (JPL/Caltech) |
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6:40 PM |
Coronagraph Technology |
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Probe-class missions |
Olivier Guyon (University of Arizona) |
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Explorer & Suborbital |
Wesley Traub (JPL/Caltech) |
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7:10 PM |
Starshade Technology |
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Probe-class missions |
N. Jeremy Kasdin (Princeton University) |
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Explorer & Suborbital |
Webster Cash (University of Colorado) |
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7:40 PM |
Telescope Technology |
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Design Trades |
Rémi Soummer |
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7:55 PM |
Questions |
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8:00 PM |
End |
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