[Interview] Alien Atmosphere Inspector. The Pandora Telescope

NASA is launching a new telescope this year called Pandora. It'll be specifically inspecting atmospheres of exoplanets. It even uses spare parts from JWST. Learning more about the Pandora telescope in this interview.

🟣 Guest: Dr Ben Hord

https://pandorasat.com/

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• 00:00 Intro


• 01:31 What is the Pandora mission


• 07:37 Target selection


• 13:38 Spare detector from JWST


• 16:59 Fighting stellar contamination


• 26:32 An alternative for TRAPPIST-1


• 28:57 What's next for Pandora


• 35:05 Current obsessions


• 38:18 Final thoughts

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