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J. Morse, P. Scowen, M. Beasley (Arizona State University), R. Woodruff (Lockheed-Martin), HORUS MIssion Development Team
The HORUS Origins Science Mission is a 2.4-meter class space observatory that will address key components in the NASA Origins Roadmap. HORUS will provide 100 times greater imaging efficiency than currently exists on HST and will restore UV spectroscopic capabilities with >10 times greater sensitivity than previous HST instruments. We present a synopsis of the requirements, technical implementation, and technology roadmap for this mission for conducting critical observations of the formation of planets, stars, and galaxies.
The HORUS mission has a well-defined Origins scientific program at its heart: a systematic survey of local, intermediate, and high-redshift sites and indicators of star formation to investigate and understand the range of environments, feedback mechanisms, and other factors that most affect the outcome of the star and planet formation process and the path from the Big Bang to people. This program relies on focused capabilities unique to space and that no other planned NASA mission will provide: near-UV/visible (200-1100nm) wide-field, diffraction-limited imaging; and high-sensitivity, low- and medium-resolution UV (100-320nm) spectroscopy. This work is supported by NASA grant number NNG04GR33G to the Arizona State University.
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