Вышел большой отчет
Decadal Survey 'New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics'.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12951http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2010-08-16-astronomy16_ST_N.htmTop survey priorities include:
•The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) — a $1.6 billion space telescope to be launched in 2020 that will eyeball exploding stars and gravity-distorted views of galaxies for clues to dark energy, as well as detecting habitable worlds orbiting stars in the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The spacecraft would fly a 10-foot-wide telescope mirror in an orbital path balanced between the gravitational pull of the Earth and sun.
•The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) — a $465 million telescope in Chile that by 2018 would investigate the report's priority areas, as well as "near-Earth" asteroids and dwarf planets beyond Neptune in our own solar system. The telescope would see the entire night sky once every three days.
•New Worlds — a $4 million-per-year study to design telescopes that will be able to directly see habitable planets detected by missions such as WFIRST and the now-flying Kepler space telescope.
Еще по космосу вошли LISA и рентгеновская миссия:
In Space: (Large-scale, in priority order) Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)—an
observatory designed to settle essential questions in both exoplanet and dark energy research, and
which will advance topics ranging from galaxy evolution to the study of objects within our own
galaxy. The Explorer Program—augmenting a program that delivers a high level of scientific
return on relatively moderate investment and that provides the capability to respond rapidly to
new scientific and technical breakthroughs. Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)—a lowfrequency
gravitational wave observatory that will open an entirely new window on the cosmos
by measuring ripples in space-time caused by many new sources, including nearby white dwarf
stars, and will probe the nature of black holes. International X-ray Observatory (IXO)—a
powerful X-ray telescope that will transform our understanding of hot gas associated with stars
and galaxies in all evolutionary stages. (Medium-scale, in rank order) New Worlds Technology
Development Program—a competed program to lay the technical and scientific foundation for a
future mission to study nearby Earth-like planets. Inflation Probe Technology Development
Program—a competed program designed to prepare for a potential next-decade cosmic
microwave-background mission to study the epoch of inflation.
На Земле тоже кое-что есть
On the Ground: (Large-scale, in priority order) Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)—a
wide-field optical survey telescope that will transform observations of the variable universe and
will address broad questions that range from indicating the nature of dark energy to determining
whether there are objects that may collide with Earth. Mid-Scale Innovations Program
augmentation— a competed program that will provide the capability to respond rapidly to
scientific discovery and technical advances with new telescopes and instruments. Giant
Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT)—a large optical and near-infrared telescope that will
revolutionize astronomy and provide a spectroscopic complement to the James Webb Space
Telescope (JWST), the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), and LSST. Atmospheric
Čerenkov Telescope Array (ACTA)—participation in an international telescope to study very
high energy gamma rays. (Medium-scale) Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT)—a 25-
meter wide-field submillimeter telescope that will complement ALMA by undertaking large-scale
surveys of dust-enshrouded objects.
