3 papers
astro-ph.IM2022
A Roadmap For Scientific Ballooning 2020-2030
Peter Gorham, James Anderson, Pietro Bernasconi +8
From 2018 to 2020, the Scientific Balloon Roadmap Program Analysis Group (Balloon Roadmap PAG) served as an community-based, interdisciplinary forum for soliciting and coordinating…
astro-ph.IM2018
Project Blue: Visible Light Imaging Search for Terrestrial-class Exoplanets in the Habitable Zones of Alpha Centauri A and B
Jon Morse, Eduardo Bendek, Nathalie Cabrol +9
Project Blue is designed to deliver a small coronagraphic space telescope mission to low-Earth orbit capable of detecting an Earth-like planet in the habitable zones of the Sun-lik…
astro-ph.IM2018
Wavefront Sensing in Space: Flight Demonstration II of the PICTURE Sounding Rocket Payload
Ewan S. Douglas, Christopher B. Mendillo, Timothy A. Cook +2
A NASA sounding rocket for high-contrast imaging with a visible nulling coronagraph, the PICTURE payload, has made two suborbital attempts to observe the warm dust disk inferred ar…