Terrestrial Planet Finder Interferometer Formation Control Performance Demonstration

摘要

This document reports the achievement of Terrestrial Planet Finder Interferometer (TPF-I) Technology Milestone No. 2, a ground-based, system-level demonstration of two-spacecraft formation synchronized rotation. We review the milestone specification from the Milestone White Paper (May 25, 2007), summarize the experiments performed in the Formation Control Testbed (FCT), detail the procedures and analysis of the resulting data, and describe and present the data itself.