Session 14. New Space Missions and Instrumentation

Display, Monday, January 8, 2001, 9:30am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

14.01 Microshutter arrays for the NGST MOS

A.S. Kutyrev, R.K. Fettig, M.J. Li (RITSS, NASA/GSFC), S.H. Moseley, D.B. Mott, B.E. Woodgate (NASA/GSFC)

14.02 Simulation of Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS) for the Next Generation Space Telescope

J.L. Kuhn, R.B. Barclay, S.B. Dutta, M.M. Freund, M.A. Greenhouse, S.H. Moseley (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

14.03 Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME)

K. Johnston, R. Gaume, F. Harris, D. Monet, M. Murison, P. K. Seidelmann, S. Urban (U.S. Naval Observatory), M. Johnson (Naval Research Lab.), S. Horner, R. Vassar (Lockheed Martin ATC)

14.04 Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME): Instrument Status

S. Horner, E. Aamodt, J. Ambrose, R. Baraze, S. Barrett, P. Dineen, P. Garabedian, L. Gilliam, L. Huff, L. Lanham, D. Mason, A. Nordt, P. Perkins, D. Read, D. Seidel, L. Sokolsky, R. Van Bezooijen, R. Vassar (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center), F. Harris, D. Monet (U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station)

14.05 Gridless Narrow-Angle Astrometry with SIM

X. Pan, S. Shaklan, M. Milman (JPL)

14.06 White light fringe modeling for the SIM CCD detector.

Slava G. Turyshev (JPL)

14.07 Simulations of SIM Astrometric Stability: the Benefits of Estimating Acceleration Parameters

C. S. Jacobs, R. L. Swartz (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

14.08 Cryogenic Delay Line for Far-IR Interferometry in Space

P.R. Lawson, M.R. Swain, J.D. Moore, G.L. Brack (JPL)

14.09 Next-generation Far-IR Telescopes and Interferometers: Scientific Capabilities and Technology Challenges

D. Leisawitz, J.C. Mather (NASA GSFC), A.W. Blain (Inst. Astronomy, Cambridge), W.D. Langer (Caltech JPL), S.H. Moseley (NASA GSFC), H.W. Yorke (Caltech JPL)

14.10 The Stellar Imager (SI) Mission Concept

K. G. Carpenter (LASP-NASA/GSFC), C. J. Schrijver (Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research)

14.11 Imaging with SISP: A preliminary study

J. Rajagopal, R.J. Allen, T. Boeker (STScI)

14.12 Crowded-Field Astrometry and Imaging with the Space Interferometry Mission

R.J. Allen, T. Boeker, R.P. van der Marel, J. Rajagopal (STScI)

14.13 The SPEAR Mission of Opportunity: Spectroscopy of Plasma Evolution from Astrophysical Radiation

J. Edelstein, E. Korpela, W.V Dixon (University of California), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Collaboration, Korea Astronomy Observatory Collaboration

14.14 External Payload Interfaces on the International Space Station

S. A. Voels, D. B. Eppler (Science Applications International Corporation), B. Park (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

14.15 X-Ray Performance of the Engineering Prototype of the Polarimeter for Low Energy X-Ray Astrophysical Sources

E.M. Laubacher (Univ. Dayton), PLEXAS Team

14.16 Advances in Composite Reflectors: From X-Ray to Radio Wave Astronomy

S.J. Connell, A.A. Abusafieh, G.V. Mehle, D.A. Sheikh, D.C. Giles (Composite Optics, Inc.)