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The TOLIMAN Mission: A Low-cost Space Telescope For High Precision Narrow-angle Astrometry

The TOLIMAN project is engaged with the construction, launch and operation of a low-cost space telescope of unorthodox optical design. Its primary science goal targets an exhaustive search for temperate-orbit rocky planets around either star in the alpha Centauri AB binary within our nearest-neighbor star system.

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