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Grant for MKID development
October 20, 2024
The SRON team working on MKID detectors, led by Pieter de Visser, secured a grant from the Dutch national funding agency NWO to work on efficient MKID detectors for the LIFE wavelength range. The grant is for a 3 year postdoc and materials…
First Dutch-Belgian LIFE Meeting
September 21, 2024
The first Dutch-Belgian LIFE Meeting in September 2024 saw lively discussions surrounding instrumentation and science talks. The goal of the meeting was to bring together the growing Belgian and Dutch LIFE communities. During the day the…
Grant for “Compact Delay Line for Space Interferometry”
September 1, 2024
PI Leonid Pogorelyuk (RPI), and Co-I's Kerri Cahoy (MIT), John Monnier (UMichigan), and Michael Shao (JPL) won a NASA-funded grant for a LIFE related technology project starting in September 2024. The "Compact Delay Line for Space…
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A telescope fleet designed to study nearby worlds
[Astronomy] LIFE would use multiple satellites flying in formation to separate the faint thermal glow of rocky planets from the overwhelming light of their host stars.