Featured Projects
COSI
COSI is a wide field of view gamma-ray telescope that obtains high spectral resolution from 0.2 to 5 MeV, enabling sensitive narrow line imaging of the entire Galaxy.
ESCAPADE
NASA ESCAPADE is the first UC Berkeley-led planetary mission. Its two identical satellites, Blue and Gold, will provide an unprecedented stereo view of Mars magnetosphere.…
PSYCHE
Psyche is both the name of an asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter — and the name of a NASA space mission to…
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will image Earth’s exosphere. The exosphere is the outermost layer of the atmosphere, and the geocorona is the light that emanates…
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FUEGO
The objective of the Fire Urgency Estimator from Ground to Orbit (FUEGO) mission is to detect the very beginning of wildfires in the western part of the USA from the Mexican to the Canadian borders,…
GALEX
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) was an orbiting space telescope observing galaxies in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history. A Pegasus rocket launched GALEX into orbit at 8 a.m. EDT on April…
GAPS
The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is the first experiment optimized to detect cosmic-ray antinuclei below 0.25 GeV/n as a signature of dark matter annihilation or decay in the Galaxy. Compared to other experimental handles for detecting…
GREECE
The purpose of the Ground-to-Rocket Electrodynamics-Electrons Correlative Experiment (GREECE) was to significantly enhance our knowledge of the structure and dynamics of the electron precipitation responsible for the aurora, on both large and small scales, which…
GRIPS-2
The Gamma Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares (GRIPS-2) is a high-altitude balloon payload designed to study particle acceleration and transport in impulsive solar-flares. It flew over Antarctica in January 2016 at a height of 130,000…
ICON
The goal of the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission was to understand the tug-of-war between Earth’s atmosphere and the space environment. In the “no man’s land” of the ionosphere, a continuous struggle between solar forcing…
ISI
The Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI) is a three-telescope interferometric array that uses heterodyne detection at 11 microns wavelength (27 THz). Measurements of the sizes, shapes and changes of red giant stars and their dust envelopes.…
ISUAL
The Imager for Sprites and Upper Atmospheric Lightning (ISUAL) was a cooperation between the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) of the University of California at Berkeley with the National Chen Kung University (NCKU). This cooperation was…
KPF
The Keck Planet Finder (KPF) is a next-generation optical spectrometer in design for the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. KPF will discover and characterize extrasolar planets using the radial velocity (RV) or Doppler spectroscopy technique, with…
MAVEN
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission was the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. The mission’s goal was to explore the planet’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and interactions with the Sun…