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Future Missions to Search for Earth-like Planets
posted: 30 Oct 2000
07:56 am
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Eddington mission  The Eddington mission was proposed to the European Space Agency (ESA) in early 2000. It would search for and study potentially habitable planets around other stars using a 1.2-meter (47-inch) optical telescope.
Eddington would carry an optical photometer mounted on a three-axis stabilized platform, sitting far from Earth. The mission would also study the makeup and evolution of stars. In October, the ESA's Science Program Committee approved Eddington as part of a larger set of initiatives to be implemented between 2008 and 2013. A workshop to discuss the mission will be held June 11-15, 2001, in Spain. Future Missions to Search for Earth-like Planets
COROT | Eddington | Kepler | Darwin | Terrestrial Planet Finder | SIM Related News
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Eddington Telescope Home Page
List of other planet-search missions | Uplink Your Views | | Will we find another Earth? How long will it take? Post your opinion |
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