Dynamically Stable Large Space Structures

Christine GreggNASA Ames Research Center The discovery of exoplanets in the habitable zone is one of the highest priorities in astrophysics. However, direct imaging would benefit immensely from much larger telescopes apertures than the James Webb Space Telescope, which already pushed the limit of deployable technologies and programmatic/budgetary capabilities. Starshade-based methods, both for in-space observatories […]