PACMAN: a Plasma Analyzer for Composition with Miniaturization and Asynchronous Novelty

Status: Completed

Start Date: 2014-10-01

End Date: 2015-09-01

Description:

This effort is technology development related to plasma spectrometers for measuring the lowest energy ambient plasma in the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere.

Benefits:

This effort can result in more mature, capable, instrumentation for future unfunded NASA missions.

Lead Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center