Assumed beam combination scheme of the LIFE array. Four collector spacecraft are located on a 6:1 rectangle with the combiner spacecraft located in the geometric center. The shorter distance between the collectors, b, is called the nulling baseline, and the longer distance is the imaging baseline, qb. The dual chopped Bracewell beam combination scheme, consisting of an interconnection of two single Bracewell combiners, is shown. We note that the collector spacecraft and the interferometric outputs are numbered for the subsequent calculation and that the spacecraft diameters are not to scale.