Editing Terrestrial Planet Finder (section)

{{short description|NASA concept study of an array of space telescopes}}
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[[File:Terrestrial Planet Finder PIA04499.jpg|thumb|200px|Terrestrial Planet Finder – Infrared interferometer concept]]
[[File:Coronagraph starburst.jpg|thumb|200px|A simulated view of the coronagraph for Terrestrial Planet Finder. (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech)]]

The '''Terrestrial Planet Finder''' ('''TPF''') was a proposed project by [[NASA]] to construct a system of [[space telescope]]s for [[Methods of detecting extrasolar planets|detecting]] [[exoplanet|extrasolar]] [[terrestrial planet]]s. TPF was postponed several times and finally cancelled in 2011.<ref name=Mullen>{{cite web |last1=Mullen |first1=Leslie |title=Rage Against the Dying of the Light |url=http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/4005/rage-against-the-dying-of-the-light |date=2 June 2011 |work=Astrobiology Magazine |access-date=2011-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604121537/http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/4005/rage-against-the-dying-of-the-light |archive-date=2011-06-04 |url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref name="NYT-20140512">{{cite news |last=Overbye |first=Dennis |author-link=Dennis Overbye |title=Finder of New Worlds |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/science/finder-of-new-worlds.html |date=12 May 2013 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=13 May 2014 }}</ref> There were two telescope systems under consideration, the '''TPF-I''', which had several small telescopes, and '''TPF-C''', which used one large telescope.