The LUVOIR Surveyor: Design Update and Technology Needs

The Large UV/Optical/Infrared (LUVOIR) Surveyor is one of four large mission concepts being studied by NASA in preparation for the 2020 Decadal Study in Astrophysics. LUVOIR builds upon the legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) in that it is a large, segmented aperture space telescope spanning the Far-UV to Near-IR wavelength range, and will perform a broad array of general astrophysics as well as directly detect and characterize habitable exoplanets around nearby sun-like stars. In this talk, we present an overview of the LUVOIR Architecture, a 15-m class telescope with four serviceable instruments. We highlight technologies needed to enable this mission, as well as technologies that may potentially enhance LUVOIR science mission.