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23 August 2024 STARI: starlight acquisition and reflection toward interferometry
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Abstract
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 endto-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.
(2024) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
John D. Monnier, Prachet Jain, Shashank Kalluri, James Cutler, Simone D'Amico, Glenn Lightsey, Leonid Pogorelyuk, Gautam Vasisht, Kerri Cahoy, and Michael Meyer "STARI: starlight acquisition and reflection toward interferometry", Proc. SPIE 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 130922Y (23 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020785
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KEYWORDS
Space operations

Stars

Formation flying

Astronomical interferometers

Design

Fiber lasers

Planets

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