Looking Toward the Future: Testing New Concepts

Abstract

The Origins Billions Star Survey (OBSS) is a space astrometry mission that was funded by NASA in 2004 to perform an eight-month concept study. Although the OBSS mission was not selected for further development beyond the concept study phase, OBSS spawned a smaller-scale mission, called the Joint Milli-Arcsecond Pathfinder Survey (JMAPS), which is currently funded for launch in early 2014. JMAPS is a small, space-based, all-sky visible wavelength astrometric and photometric survey mission for 0th through 14th magnitude stars. The primary objective of the JMAPS mission is the generation of an astrometric star catalogue with better than 1 milliarcsecond positional accuracy and photometry to the 1% accuracy level, or better, at 1st to 12th magnitude.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA540096

Entities

People

  • R. Gaume

Organizations

  • United States Naval Observatory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Catalogs
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Detectors
  • Earth Orbits
  • Focal Planes
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Low Resolution
  • Microsatellites
  • Missions
  • Observatories
  • Orbits
  • Photometry
  • Radial Velocity
  • Space Based
  • Spacecraft

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites