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The Extreme-ultraviolet Stellar Characterization for Atmospheric Physics and Evolution (ESCAPE) mission aims to find environments beyond Earth’s solar system that might host planets with thick atmospheres to support life[1].
| File:ESCAPE spacecraft render2 Render of ESCAPE spacecraft | |
| Names | ESCAPE |
|---|---|
| Mission type | Stellar activity Exoplanet habitability Astronomy |
| Operator | NASA |
| Website | lasp |
| Mission duration | 2 years (design) |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Bus | Ball Configurable Platform (BCP) |
| Manufacturer | Ball Aerospace |
| Launch mass | 245 kg (540 lb) |
| Dry mass | 245 kg (540 lb) |
| Dimensions | 2.57 m × 2.09 m × 1.10 m (8.4 ft × 6.9 ft × 3.6 ft) |
| Power | 256 W |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 2025 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Low Earth Orbit |
| Main telescope | |
| Type | Gregorian telescope, grazing incidence |
| Diameter | 0.46 m (1.5 ft) |
| Wavelengths | 80 Å to 825 Å (EUV) 1280 Å to 1650 Å (FUV) |
 ESCAPE mission logo | |
The long-term stability of exoplanetary atmospheres depends critically on the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) flux from the host star. The EUV flux likely drives the demographics of the short-period planet population as well the ability for rocky planets to maintain habitable environments long enough for the emergence of life. ESCAPE is an astrophysics Small Explorer proposed to NASA that employs extreme- and far-ultraviolet spectroscopy (80 – 1650 Å) to characterize the high-energy radiation environment in the habitable zones (HZs) around nearby stars.
Mission objective
ESCAPE provides the first comprehensive study of the stellar EUV environments that control atmospheric mass-loss and determine the habitability of rocky exoplanets. ESCAPE’s prime mission is driven by two spectroscopic surveys: 1) a broad survey of EUV and FUV flux from 200 nearby (d < 100 pc) F, G, K, and M stars, providing direct input into atmospheric evolution models. The mission targets stars with a range of ages and activity levels, and places an emphasis on stars with known exoplanets. 2) A deep monitoring survey (~2 weeks per star) of 24 targets-of-interest to measure the stellar flare frequency distribution and constrain the coronal mass ejection (CME) rate and high-energy particle fluence from these objects. Together, these surveys provide the crucial stellar drivers that regulate habitable environments on planets targeted by upcoming atmospheric characterization missions, from James Webb Space Telescope to Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor.
Science instrument
The ESCAPE Hettrick-Bowyer telescope comprises a grazing-incidence mirror that focus ultraviolet light through a spectral filter, where a secondary mirror module directs light to a set of grazing-incidence gratings and a set of normal-incidence gratings that disperse light as spectra onto the microchannel plate detector. This ultimately results in spectra ranging from 80 Å to 825 Å (EUV) and from 1280 Å to 1650 Å (FUV) with 1 Å resolution. Once downlinked and processed, these measurements will be accessible on Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST).
Construction
ESCAPE is being designed and built by several institutions, led by Principal Investigator Kevin France at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), a research institute at University of Colorado Boulder.
- LASP is responsible for the overall project, instrument design, instrument integration, mission operations, and science data processing.
- Ball Aerospace provides the spacecraft bus, integrates it with the telescope, and performs spacecraft level environmental testing.
- Marshall Space Flight Center and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory jointly manufacture, assembles, and align the concentric, grazing incidence mirrors optimized for ESCAPE's observing bandpass.
- Pennsylvania State University provides the custom gratings that disperse incoming light into spectra.
- University of California Berkeley provides the specialized detector.
References
- ^ The extreme-ultraviolet stellar characterization for atmospheric physics and evolution (ESCAPE) mission concept. SPIE. SPIE. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
External links
- Official website
- "NASA Selects Proposals to Study Volatile Stars, Galaxies, Cosmic Collisions". Retrieved 14 August 2020.