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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PADRE
The solar PolArization and Directivity X-Ray Experiment (PADRE) is NASA cubesat mission to study and dicepher the secrets of the Sun. The mission is a collaboration between the Space Sciences Laboratory – University of California…
PENGUIn
The Polar Experiment Network for Geospace Upper-atmosphere Investigations (PENGUIn) project involved measuring LF/MF/HF signals at ground level from remote sites in Antarctica. The primary scientific goal is to characterize natural emissions from the Earth’s aurora.…
Planck
Planck was ESA’s mission to observe the first light in the Universe. Planck was selected in 1995 as the third Medium-Sized Mission (M3) of ESA’s Horizon 2000 Scientific Programme, and later became part of its…
PolarBear Telescope
POLARBEAR is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment situated on the 3.5-meter diameter Huan Tran Telescope at the James Ax Observatory located at Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. It is designed to…
PSP/FIELDS
Surveyor of the invisible forces, the FIELDS instrument suite on Parker Solar Probe captures the scale and shape of electric and magnetic fields in the Sun’s atmosphere. FIELDS measures waves and turbulence in the inner…
PSP/SWEAP
The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) investigation is the set of instruments on the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft that directly measure the properties of the plasma in the solar atmosphere.
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 visit that asteroid. The Psyche spacecraft is targeted to travel…
RHESSI
The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager was a NASA solar flare observatory. It was the first imaging mission to observe solar flares from soft X-rays to gamma rays.
SALT-BVIT
The BVIT is a visible photon counting detector mounted on the 10m Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) that is designed to provide observers with very high time-resolution photometric imaging observations of astronomical objects. The instrument,…
Solar MURI
Solar MURI was a collaborative project studying magnetic eruptions on the Sun and their effects on the Earth’s space environment. (“MURI” stands for Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, a research program funded by DoD.) The aim…