[astro-ph.IM] The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is NASA’s next large space telescope, selected by the 2020 Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics to search for and characterize habitable exoplanets while enabling a broad range of transformative astrophysics.
In August 2024, the HWO Technology Maturation Project Office (TMPO) was formed to begin exploring the HWO science, technology, and mission architectures toward a Mission Concept Review (MCR) at the end of the decade.
A primary deliverable of this effort is this technology development plan that identifies critical technologies that enable the mission, defines a process for assessing the readiness of those technologies, and outlines a strategy for developing those technologies to a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 5 before the MCR.
This document covers technologies organized along three tracks: Coronagraph System technologies, Ultra-stable Telescope System technologies, and High-sensitivity Ultraviolet and Visible Instrumentation technologies. Additional emerging and enhancing technologies are also discussed.
Notional control system block diagram — astro-ph.IM
Matthew Bolcar, Feng Zhao, Paul Scowen, Lee Feinberg, Breann Sitarski, Alice Liu, J. Scott Smith, Josh Abel
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cite as: arXiv:2607.02773 [astro-ph.IM] (or arXiv:2607.02773v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.02773
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From: Breann Sitarski
[v1] Thu, 2 Jul 2026 21:10:57 UTC (14,402 KB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02773
Astrobiology, Astronomy, exoplanet,
