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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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.
S3-3
S3-3 was a small observatory in a near-polar orbit with eight different sensors on board. It was designed to observe various magnetospheric parameters and their interrelationships. Sensors, which observed energetic protons and Alpha particles, also…
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…
SPEAR
The FIMS-SPEAR experiment conducted the first large-area spectral imaging survey of the far-ultraviolet sky, a band that spans warm and hot plasma cooling lines, molecular hydrogen fluorescent emission, and dust-scattered starlight. Known in Korea as…
STAR
The primary physics objective of the Star Experiment At the Relativistic heavy ion collider (STAR) is to study the formation and characteristics of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of matter believed to exist at…