NASA Selects Next Generation Spectrometer for SOFIA Flying Observatory
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-selects-next-generation-spectrometer-for-sofia-flying-observatory
A team from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has been selected to develop a new,
third-generation facility science instrument for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA.
The principal investigator, Samuel Harvey Moseley will lead the team to develop the High Resolution Mid-InfrarEd Spectrometer (HIRMES).
The team consists of co-investigators from Space Dynamics Lab, Precision Cryogenic Systems, Inc., University of Michigan, University of
Maryland, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Johns Hopkins University, Space Telescope Science Institute, Cornell University and
University of Rochester.
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