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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
http://science.nasa.gov/missions/tpf/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002SPIE.4835...79S/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3200

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