Pandora will be at the 2025 AAS 246th Meeting in Anchorage, AK, from June 8-12, 2025.
The Pandora SmallSat was selected in 2021 as an inaugural mission in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers Program. It includes a 0.45-meter telescope, visible-light photometry, and near-infrared spectroscopy. Pandora will launch in 2025.
Pandora will improve our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres by disentangling exoplanet signals from their host stars. It will study host star variability with long-duration observations of 20 unique planets.
Visible wavelength observations are critical for quantifying stellar contamination in exoplanet observations. Pandora’s long-baseline observations in simultaneous visible and near-infrared wavelengths complement shorter-duration infrared observations with JWST.
A core philosophy of the Pandora team is to ensure that the data collected and tools developed for Pandora can be valuable to the broader science community. We will make data and tools publicly available.
Elisa Quintana (PI): elisa.quintana@nasa.gov
Knicole Colón (Project Scientist): knicole.colon@nasa.gov