NASA has come up with an ambitious new plan that could help astronomers detect signs of life on distant planets.
NASA has a bold new plan to help detect signs of life on distant planets. The plan relies heavily on a new telescope system. However, instead of sending the telescope up in one main package, it will be sent up as multiple CubeSats that self-assembly into the final product. Researchers penned aThis is NASA’s bold plan to detect signs of life on distant planets
The new plan to detect signs of life on distant planets is part of NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts. The institute has become somewhat famous for its support of outlandish ideas. NASA re-established the institute in 2011. Since then, it has supported multiple projects in its three-phase program.
One of the biggest priorities of that new paper is to take a look at the technology we already have. It also covers tech that needs to be developed to make the plan to detect signs of life on distant planets work as intended. That paper also includes some of the mission design’s most striking features, like its launch plan.CubeSats like NASA’s TROPICS CubeSats will join together to make a larger spacecraft.
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