Design and status of the CASTOR mission

Patrick Côté; Melissa Amenouche; Deborah Lokhorst

doi:10.1117/12.3019209

21 August 2024 Design and status of the CASTOR mission

Patrick Côté, Melissa Amenouche, Deborah Lokhorst

Proceedings Volume 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 130933A (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019209
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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The CASTOR mission is a wide-field, nearly diffraction-limited, 1m-diameter space telescope that is under development by the Canadian Space Agency. The telescope is being optimized for wide-field imaging at UV/blue-optical wavelengths, but also features low- and medium-resolution spectroscopic capabilities covering the 150 to 400 nm region, as well as three precision photometers for observations of exoplanet transits. In this paper, we briefly describe the current design of the mission, including payload layout, instrument suite, bus, orbit and observing plans. A companion paper provides a short description of CASTOR’s science mission and capabilities within the international landscape.

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Patrick Côté, Melissa Amenouche, and Deborah Lokhorst "Design and status of the CASTOR mission", Proc. SPIE 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 130933A (21 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019209

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