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Starshade Roadmap
1962 The idea was conceived by Lyman Spitzer; in the same paper, he also suggested that NASA build and fly what would later become the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra Observatory.
1985 French optical physicist Marchal proposed an opaque disk surrounded by shaped petals, foreshadowing the modern design.
2006 Webster Cash revives and promotes Starshade with a design that finally allowed for the possibility of an affordable solution.
2006 to 2008 Northrop Grumman Corporation develops Starshade and desert testing.
2008 JPL and Princeton University via Jeremy Kasdin combine forces.
2012 Exo-S Sara Seager leads and with JPL brings Starshade from fringe to viable, culminating in the 2015 Starshade Report.
2010-2024 Starshade direct and competed funding from NASA supported technology development S5 program from NASA and reaches a substantial level of technical maturity.
Today - Professor Seager and the team at MIT are championing Starshade to identify Earth 2.0.
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