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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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…
Genesis
NASA’s Genesis spacecraft spent more than two years collecting samples of the solar wind. The spacecraft then brought the sample canister back to Earth where it parachuted to the ground. Despite a hard landing in…
GIOTTO
Giotto was ESA’s first deep-space mission. In 1986, it passed closest to the nucleus of a comet, Halley. Its images showed for the first time the shape of a comet nucleus and found the first…
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…
HERMES
The Heliophysics Environmental and Radiation Measurement Experiment Suite (HERMES) is an instrument payload that is mounted on the upcoming Lunar Gateway and will serve as a heliospheric science experiment and as a space weather station.…
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…
IMAGE
The IMAGE spacecraft was launched on 25 March 2000. IMAGE was the first satellite mission dedicated to imaging the Earth’s magnetosphere, the region of space controlled by the Earth’s magnetic field and containing extremely tenuous plasmas…
IMAP
The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, explores and maps the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun’s wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and studies…
IMP 1-6
The Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) satellites were designed to study the boundary between Earth’s magnetic environment and interplanetary space, along with the radiation – both from the sun and from outside the solar system –…