Fundamental Technologies RB-SPICE

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More About the RBSP Mission and RB-SPICE

The RBSP mission is part of NASA’s Living With a Star program to explore fundamental processes that operate throughout our solar system -- in particular those that generate hazardous space weather near the Earth and phenomena that could affect solar system exploration. RBSP will focus on Earth's radiation belts, which can affect spacecraft operations, spacecraft design, and astronaut safety.

The RBSP experiments are:

• Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma Suite (ECT)
  Principal Investigator: H. Spence, Boston University
• Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS)
  Principal Investigator: C. Kletzing, University of Iowa, Iowa City
• Electric Field and Waves Suite (EFW)
  Principal Investigator: J. Wygant, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• Radiation Belt Storm Probes Ion Composition Experiment (RBSPICE)
  Principal Investigator: L. J. Lanzerotti, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Both RBSP spacecraft will carry these four instruments/instrument suites; in addition, one of the probes will carry:

• Relativistic Proton Spectrometer (RPS)
  Principal Investigator: Lt. Col. C. Groves, National Reconnaissance Office

Image of the RB-SPICE Instrument:

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Updated 2/18/08, T. Hunt-Ward
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