FUEGO Fact Sheet

fuego spacecraft taking an image of a fire

FUEGO’s scientific objective is to detect the very beginnings of wildfires, and to provide real-time information on a fire’s intensity, evolution and movement. The system is an imager operating in two IR bands (4 and 9 microns wavelength), with a visible context imager.

Grotifer Fact Sheet

a satellite in black space

Grotifer aims to close the many significant science questions that are hampered by the current lack of accurate 3D e-field measurements (e.g., at reconnection).

ACES II Fact Sheet

Aurora Current and Electrodynamics Structures II instrument being launched

ACES II is a NASA-funded rocket mission to measure the global electric circuit underlying the northern lights. 

THEMIS Fact Sheet

THEMIS studies how mass and energy move through the near-Earth space environment to determine the physical processes initiating auroras.

ICON Fact Sheet

The goal of the ICON mission is to understand the tug-of-war between Earth’s atmosphere and the space environment.