Maturity Assessment of Starshade Optical and Formation Flying Technologies for Habitable Worlds Observatory
Maturity Assessment of Starshade Optical and Formation Flying Technologies for Habitable Worlds Observatory
16/08/23, 17:00
The JPL “S5” starshade team presented an assessment of the maturity of three starshade technologies to an independent, mostly external board, made up of a peer group of both NASA and non-NASA engineers.
The reviewed technologies were: 1) optical performance and modeling, 2) optical petal edges, and 3) formation-flying technology, with respect to anticipated Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) requirements. The Starshade Technology Activity achieved all development milestones for those three technologies with respect to requirements of a hypothetical starshade mission operating with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman Rendezvous) and for the HabEx mission concept.
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