Whitepaper #338 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: primitive bodies; ground- and space-based telescopes
by Gerard van Belle, Justin Kugler, Nick Moskovitz, and Jessica Piness
Published onMar 18, 2021
LightBeam: Flyby-Like Imaging Without The Flyby
The LightBeam spacecraft is a mission concept for a facility providing milliarcsecond-class imaging of solar system objects, from NEOs to the main belt to Jupiter Trojans. LightBeam achieves this via innovative in-space manufacturing techniques which enable a long-baseline optical interferometer to be flown in a cost-effective smallsat package.
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