Pandora is software developed at CNES that performs the image matching step and generates a displacement (disparity) map.
A Saturn-200 minisatellite developed by Blue Canyon Technologies was launched in support of NASA’s Pandora mission.
The Saturn-class platform used for Pandora is equipped with advanced guidance, navigation, and control systems.
Blue Canyon Technologies provided launch vehicle integration and post-launch bus commissioning for the Pandora mission.
Pandora will focus on detecting planets with atmospheres primarily composed of hydrogen or water.
Pandora is software developed at CNES that performs the matching step and generates a displacement (disparity) map highlighting successful and failed matches.
Pandora features the largest telescope payload ever integrated onto a Blue Canyon spacecraft.
Pandora aims to conduct an in-depth study of at least 20 planets by observing transits.
Pandora will analyze the effects of transits to determine planetary atmospheric composition and assess the potential for supporting life.
Pandora is a NASA Science Mission Directorate program led by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and managed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
NASA’s Pandora mission is designed to study the atmospheres of exoplanets and the activity of their host stars.
Pandora is designed to study exoplanets discovered by other observatories by probing the composition of their atmospheres.
Pandora's mission operations center is located at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Launch services for Pandora were procured under NASA's Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare contract, known as VADR.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland leads the Pandora mission and supplied its infrared sensor.
Pandora will monitor the brightness of each target star in visible wavelengths while collecting near infrared data from both the star and the transiting planet.
Pandora's mission will repeatedly observe each selected exoplanet system 10 times for 24 hours at a stretch.
NASA’s Pandora space telescope satellite is in sun-synchronous orbit.
Pandora aims to determine whether any of the observed exoplanets' atmospheres contain water vapor, hazes, and clouds.
Pandora will conduct detailed observations of 20 exoplanets over the next year.