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SpaceRef - Exploration and Missions - Robotic Missions - Astrophysics And Astronomy - DARWIN


  • Darwin - The search for other worlds - Darwin is a proposed extrasolar planet detection program that will use five or six 1m class telescopes, which together will form a nulling (Bracewell) interferometer. Darwin will operate at the L2 Lagrangian point in the Sun-Earth system European Space Agency.

  • Infra-Red Space Interferometer DARWIN - DARWIN (IRSI) is a cornerstone candidate in the ESA Horizon 2000+ science plan. The goals for this mission is for the first time to detect terrestrial planets in orbit around other stars than our Sun and to allow, also for the first time, high spatial resolution imaging in the approximately 6-30 micrometer wavelength region. European Space Agency.

  • The Darwin space-based interferometer - A proposal to ESA for a space-based interferometer dedicated to finding Earth-like planets. Hosted at Space Infrared Interferometry Working Group, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)


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