TAU mission

TAU mission

The TAU (thousand astronomical units) mission would be the name of a proposed unmanned space probe to a distance of one-thousand astronomical units (1000 AU) from the Earth and Sun. One scientific purpose would be to measure the distance to other stars via stellar parallax.

Links

* [http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/TAU.html Tau (Thousand Astronomical Unit) Mission] in "The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight".
* [http://pdf.aiaa.org/preview/1987/PV1987_1049.pdf Abstract of "TAU -- A MISSION TO A THOUSAND ASTRONOMICAL UNITS"] by K. T. Neck of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987STIN...8728490E Abstract of "Preliminary scientific rationale for a voyage to a thousand astronomical units"] by M. I. Etchegaray of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology.


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