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Looking Toward the Future: Testing New Concepts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

C. Turon ,
F. Meynadier ,
F. Arenou  and
R. Gaume
R. Gaume*
Affiliation:
U.S. Naval Observatory, USA
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Abstract

The Origins Billions Star Survey (OBSS) is a space astrometry mission that was funded byNASA in 2004 to perform an eight-month concept study. Although the OBSS mission was notselected for further development beyond the concept study phase, OBSS spawned asmaller-scale mission, called the Joint Milli-Arcsecond Pathfinder Survey (JMAPS), whichis currently funded for launch in early 2014. JMAPS is a small, space-based, all-skyvisible wavelength astrometric and photometric survey mission for 0th through 14th magnitudestars. The primary objective of the JMAPS mission is the generation of an astrometric starcatalogue with better than 1 milliarcsecond positional accuracy and photometry to the 1%accuracy level, or better, at 1st to 12th magnitude.

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Research Article
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European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 45: GAIA: At the Frontiers of Astrometry , 2010 , pp. 143 - 146
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© EAS, EDP Sciences 2011

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