James Kasting

Discovering and Characterizing the Planetary Systems of Nearby Stars: The scientific need for medium aperture space coronagraph observations (2009)

Greene, Tom, Cahoy, Kerri, Guyon, Olivier, Kasting, James, Marley, Mark, Meyer, Michael, ...

Significant advances in the discovery and characterization of the planetary systems of nearby stars can be accomplished with a moderate aperture high performance coronagraphic space mission that...

TPF-C : status and recent progress (2006)

Traub, Wesley A., Levine, Marie, Shaklan, Stuart, Kasting, James, Angel, J. Roger, Brown, Michael E., ...

The Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph (TPF-C) is a deep space mission designed to detect and characterize Earthlike planets around nearby stars. TPF-C will be able to search for signs of life on...

Telescope to Observe Planetary Systems (TOPS): a high throughput 1.2-m visible telescope with a small inner working angle (2006)

Guyon, Olivier, Angel, James R. P., Bowers, Charles, Burge, James, Burrows, Adam, Codona, Johanan, ...

The Telescope to Observe Planetary Systems (TOPS) is a proposed space mission to image in the visible (0.4-0.9 micron) planetary systems of nearby stars simultaneously in 16 spectral bands...