Current laboratory performance of starlight suppression systems and potential pathways to desired Habitable Worlds Observatory exoplanet science capabilities

B Mennesson, R Belikov, E Por… - Journal of …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We summarize the current best polychromatic (∼ 10% to 20% bandwidth) contrast
performance demonstrated in the laboratory by different starlight suppression approaches …

Architecting Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) to be resilient to uncertainties

DW Miller, RM Morgan… - … Systems Engineering, and …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Decisions made early in a mission design, when information is sparse, define most of the
downstream development cost. This becomes particularly problematic when uncertainties …