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FOXSI-5 mission demonstrates potential of advanced X-ray imaging and rockets for solar physics
The images collected by the FOXSI team over its five flights are demonstrating the effectiveness of their next-generation X-ray optics and proving that sounding rockets have great potential to compliment satellite missions for basic solar science.
Read MoreCutting-edge DESI survey technology originated at SSL
By Alan TothApril 20, 2026 On April 14, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed its survey of the sky. Finished ahead of its planned five-year timeline, the project produced a 3D map of the universe using data from 47 million galaxies and quasars, along with more than 20 million nearby stars. DESI has proven…
Read MoreESCAPADE spacecraft are now flying through Earth’s magnetotail
Launched to Mars in November, NASA’s ESCAPADE probes — operated by UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab — are now testing their instruments in a never-before-visited region of Earth’s magnetic field.
Read MoreCINEMA mission will explore auroras and Earth’s mysterious magnetotail
Much of what we see as auroras near the northern and southern magnetic poles begins as plasma currents in the Earth’s magnetotail. NASA’s CINEMA mission will probe this unexplored region.
Read MoreCarruthers has reached target orbit between Earth and the Sun
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has reached its target orbit at Lagrange Point 1 between the Earth and the Sun.
Read MorePADRE aims to reveal secrets of solar flares
NASA’s PADRE mission will measure hard X-rays emitted during solar flares. It is poised to unlock the secrets of solar flares at a fraction of the cost of previous missions.
Read MoreWATCH: COSI will explore the gamma-ray sky
The payload for NASA’s Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) mission is now being at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL). In this series of videos, John Tomsick describes how COSI operates.
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