ICESat / CHIPSat

ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite) is a satellite mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics.

CHIPSat for (Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer satellite) is a microsat whose primary objective of the science team, led by Principal Investigator Mark Hurwitz, is to study the million-degree gas in the local interstellar medium. CHIPSat is designed to capture the first spectra of the faint, extreme ultraviolet glow that is expected to be emitted by the hot interstellar gas within about 300 light-years of the Sun, a region often referred to as the Local Bubble