STARI: STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry

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Title: STARI: STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry
Authors: Monnier, John D., Jain, Prachet, Kalluri, Shashank, Cutler, James, D'Amico, Simone, Lightsey, Glenn, Pogorelyuk, Leonid, Vasisht, Gautam, Cahoy, Kerri, Meyer, Michael
Publication Year: 2024
Collection: Astrophysics
Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
More Details: We present the concept for STARI: STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry. If launched, STARI will be the first mission to control a 3-D CubeSat formation to the few mm-level, reflect starlight over 10s to 100s of meters from one spacecraft to another, control tip-tilt with sub-arcsecond stability, and validate end-to-end performance by injecting light into a single-mode fiber. While STARI is not an interferometer, the mission will advance the Technology Readiness Levels of the essential subsystems needed for a space interferometer in the near future.
Comment: submitted to SPIE 2024 (Yokohama)
Document Type: Working Paper
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03925
Accession Number: edsarx.2408.03925
Database: arXiv
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