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Proposed Space Interferometry Missions

This page is under construction. It is slowly begin organized.

This is a very incomplete list that will slowly grow, as time permits to make additions. My principle source is the MOon Free-Flyer Interferometer Trade-off Study also known as the MOFFIT report and which also has the title

Kilometric Baseline Space Interferometry: Comparison of free-flyer and moon-based versions
Space Interferometry Study Team
European Space Agency, ESA SCI(96)7
June 1996.

This report was a trade study of the performance of moon-based and free-flyer interferometers. It did not address nulling interferometry in any depth, but was concerned principally with aperture synthesis imaging.

• Detecting nonsolar planets by spinning infrared interferometer
  R.N. Bracewell
  Nature 274, 780-781 (1978).

• FLUTE
  FLUTE: A long-baseline optical interferometer in space
  A. Labeyrie, F. Praderie, J. Steinberg, S. Vatoux, and F. Wouters
  in Optical and Infrared Telescopes for the 1990s
  A. Hewitt ed., (Kitt Peak Nat. Obs, May 1980) Vol. II, pp. 1020-1026.

• Coherent arrays for optical astronomy in space
  W.A. Traub and H. Gursky
  in Optical and Infrared Telescopes for the 1990s
  A. Hewitt ed., (Kitt Peak Nat. Obs, May 1980) Vol. I, pp. 250-262.

• TRIO
  TRIO: a kilometric interferometer with solar sails
  A. Labeyrie, B. Authier, Th. de Graauw, E. Kibblewhite, G. Weigelt
  in Colloquium on Kilometric Optical Arrays in Space
  N. Longdon and O. Melita eds., ESA SP-226,
  (European Space Agency: Noordwijk, The Netherlands 1985)
  

• A space telescope for infrared spectroscopy of Earth-like planets
  J.R.P. Angel, A.Y.S. Cheng, and N.J. Woolf
  Nature 322, 341-343 (1986)

• OASIS
  OASIS: Optical Aperture Synthesis in Space, a mission concept
  J.E. Noordam, A.H. Greenaway, R.S. le Poole, J.D. Bregman
  ESA Workshop on Optical Interferometry in Space
  N. Longdon and V. David eds, ESA SP-273
  (European Space Agency: Noordwijk, The Netherlands 1987)
  

• HARDI
  HARDI: High angular resolution deployable interferometer
  P.Y. Bely, C.J. Burrows, F. Roddier, G. Weigelt
  New Technologies for Astronomy, ECO Proc 1130 (1989).

• Newcomb
  Newcomb, a POINTS precursor mission with scientific capacity
  R.D. Reasenberg, R.W. Babcock, J.D. Phillips, K. Johnston, and R. Simon
  Spaceborne Interferometry
  Proc. SPIE 1947, 272-281 (1993).

• OSI
  Orbiting stellar interferometer for astrometry and imaging
  M.M. Colavita, M. Shao, and M.D. Rayman
  Appl. Opt. 32, 1789-1797 (1993).

• SONATA
  Design of an orbiting stellar interferometer for planet detection
  J. Yu, M. Shao, M.M. Colavita, and M.D. Rayman
  Proc. SPIE 1947 on Spaceborne Interferometry, 261-271 (1993).

• SSI
  SSI: Separated Spacecraft Interferometry
  S.R. Kulkarni, P-Y Bely, M. Colavita, A.B. DeCou, D.L. Jones, J.H. Krolik, C.D. Martin, H.A. McAlister, J.P. McGuire, T. Nakajima, X. Pan, S. Phinney, M. Shao, J.W. Yu
  Proposal to NASA Res. Ann. 94-15 (1994).

• DARWIN
  Could we search for primitive life on extrasolar planets in the near future?: The DARWIN Project
  A. Leger, J.M. Mariotti, B. Mennesson, M. Ollivier, J.L. Puget, D. Rouan, and J. Schneider
  Icarus 123, 249-255 (1996).

• DIVA
  DIVA - Towards microarcsec global astrometry
  Hipparcos Venice `97, ESA SP-402
  (European Space Agency: Noordwijk, The Netherlands 1997), pp. 777-782.

• OASES
  An imaging nulling interferometer to study extrasolar planets
  J.R.P. Angel and N.J. Woolf
  Ap.J. 475, 373-379 (1997).

• Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF)
  Terrestrial Planet Finder: Origins of Stars Planets and Life
  C.A. Beichman, N.J. Woolf, and C.A. Lindensmith, eds.
  JPL Publication 99-3, May 1999.
  

• PDI
  Planet Discoverer Interferometer I: PDI, a potential precursor to Terrestrial Planet Finder
  N.J. Woolf, J.R.P. Angel, C.A. Beichman, J. Burge, M. Shao and D. Tenerelli
  in Astronomical Interferometry
  Proc. SPIE 3350 (SPIE Press: Bellingham, WA, 1998), pp 683-689.

Stachnik et al: SAMSI (1984)
Burns LOUISA (1989)
Angel & Woolf: Planet Finder (1996)
Lindegren and Perryman: GAIA (1994)
Dilute Lens Imager, DLI
Multiple Space-craft Interferometer Constellation, MUSIC
Clementine II interferometer - Moon Based
DS3/ST3

Last Updated 11 February 1998