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TEDI Palomar

EngineeringResearchCompleted
May 11, 2026
The Palomar Observatory | 2006-2010

The TEDI project involved building an EDI interferometer to fit inside the Cassegrain output hole of the Mt. Palomar 200 inch telescope to demonstrate a novel technique for a Doppler planet search in the near…

THEMIS

ResearchCompleted
May 5, 2026
Earth’s magnetotail | 2007-present

The Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission studies how mass and energy move through the near-Earth space environment to determine the physical processes initiating auroras. It was originally comprised of…

THEMIS-ARTEMIS

Jun 12, 2026
Lunar orbit | 2010-present

NASA’s THEMIS-ARTEMIS mission is made up of two probes: P1 and P2. They were originally part of the successful THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) mission that orbited Earth and studied…

TRACERS

Research
Apr 27, 2026
Low Earth Orbit | 2025 - Present

The goal of the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission is to connect the magnetospheric cusp to the magnetopause and discover how spatial or temporal variations in magnetic reconnection drive cusp dynamics.…

TRICE-2

Research
May 5, 2026
Earth polar space | 2018

The Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics (TRICE-2) explored magnetic reconnection—the explosive process that allows charged particles from space to stream into Earth’s atmosphere. The results promise to shed light on the fundamental process of…

Van Allen Probes

EngineeringResearchCompleted
May 7, 2026
Low-Earth orbit | 2012

Originally designed for a two-year mission, NASA’s Van Allen Probes A and B launched on Aug. 30, 2012, and gathered unprecedented data on the Van Allen belts for almost seven years. The mission made several major discoveries…