Mission Control in 2022

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  • The GHOST spectrograph will shortly be available on the Gemini South Telescope for studies of stellar and galactic abundances and, in time, exoplanets.

    • Alan W. McConnachie
    • Christian R. Hayes
    • Steven Margheim
    Mission Control

  • SPRITE will map ionized gas emission from supernova remnants and ionizing radiation escape from local galaxies.

    • Brian Fleming
    Mission Control

  • An incoherent scatter radar in southern China will probe low-latitude ionospheric properties while also sensing meteors and space debris, explain the SYISR leadership team.

    • Xinan Yue
    • Weixing Wan
    • Lin Jin
    Mission Control

  • The Hector instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope will measure the internal motion of more galaxies than previous instruments, explains principal investigator Julia Bryant on behalf of the Hector team.

    • Julia Bryant
    Mission Control

  • An experiment designed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences — the Balloon-Borne Astrobiology Platform (CAS-BAP) — paves the way to conducting astrobiology research in Earth’s near space as a planetary analogue.

    • Wei Lin
    • Fei He
    • Yongxin Pan
    Mission Control

  • The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), which will focus on solar eruptions and their origins, is scheduled for launch in late 2022, explain Chief Scientist Weiqun Gan and assistants Li Feng and Yang Su.

    • W. Q. Gan
    • L. Feng
    • Y. Su
    Mission Control