Abstract: What would happen if, hypothetically, the highly successful Cassini mission were to end prematurely due…
Author: New NASA STI
Interplanetary CubeSat Navigational Challenges
Abstract: CubeSats are miniaturized spacecraft of small mass that comply with a form specification so they…
Aluminum Mirror Coatings for UVOIR Telescope Optics Including the Far UV
Abstract: NASA Cosmic Origins (COR) Program identified the development of high reflectivity mirror coatings for large…
Exoplanet Coronagraph Shaped Pupil Masks and Laboratory Scale Star Shade Masks: Design, Fabrication and Characterization
Abstract: Star light suppression technologies to find and characterize faint exoplanets include internal coronagraph instruments as…
Odyssey Mars Orbiter – Thirteen Years of On-Orbit Navigation
Abstract: The Odyssey spacecraft has been in Mars orbit since October 24, 2001 and has nearly…
Laboratory Performance of the Shaped Pupil Coronagraphic Architecture for the WFIRST-AFTA Coronagraph
Abstract: One of the two primary architectures being tested for the WFIRST-AFTA coronagraph instrument is the…
Requirements and Design Reference Mission for the WFIRST-AFTA Coronagraph Instrument
Abstract: The WFIRST-AFTA coronagraph instrument take s advantage of AFTA s 2.4 -meter aperture to provide…
NIAC Phase II Orbiting Rainbows Granular Imager
Abstract: In this paper, we present some ideas regarding the optics and imaging aspects of granular…
Measuring Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide from Space with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)
Abstract: The OCO-2 is the first NASA satellite designed to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide with the…