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.