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The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI): Update & Second Launch Project
<p> Particle acceleration in solar flares and its contribution to coronal heating are among the main unsolved problems in heliophysics. Accelerated electrons in... -
Aircraft Albedo Pod
ALPO is an effort to develop an airborne science instrument pod utilizing an advanced integration concept that minimizes structural impacts to the host aircraft. This proof of... -
Auroral Spatial Structures Probe Project
<p> </p> <p align="center"> <strong><u>Methodology </u></strong></p> <p> Fly a high altitude sounding... -
High-Rate Data Recorder
Design a low cost, compact, solid-state data recorder for suborbital vehicles. The recorder will have a 45 GB minimum capacity and a record rate of at least 400... -
Communication System and Avionics for Deployable Small Free Flying Payloads
This IRAD will develop a core part of the communication system for the small free flying payloads. In particular, this portion of the system will consist of the circuitry... -
Equatorial Vortex Experiment (EVEX): A Study of the Ionospheric Plasma...
<p> The approach is to measure ExB drifts (through electric field observations) in conjunction with E and F region turbulence observations.</p> <p> This will... -
GREECE -- Ground-to-Rocket Electrodynamics-Electrons Correlative Experiment:...
<p> <strong>Methodology </strong>The methodology is based on making comparisons between downward electron flux, DC electric fields, electromagnetic waves, and... -
Cusp Alfven and Plasma Electrodynamics Rocket (CAPER) Project
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Receive System for Multiple Payload Swarm
This proposed IRAD develops a core part of the communication system for the reception of data transmissions from small free flying payloads. In particular, this portion of... -
Exploring the Frontier of Coronal Energetics with EUNIS Project
<p> <strong>Methodology used to answer science question:</strong></p> <p> The investigators propose to upgrade the successfully flown EUNIS EUV... -
small UAS Control Center
This new asset will provide the Wallops Range and the WFF Aircraft Office (WFFAO) with the operational environment required for the assurance of safe and successful UAS flight... -
Rapidly Extending And Contracting Tubular (REACT) Boom System Development
This project aims to create a prototype retractable, reel stored, tubular boom system with the capability to hold a magnetically sensitive science instrument or technology... -
Cubesat Fine Sun Sensor
A second generation Wallops Fine Sun Sensor (WFSS) was developed as a 2016 IRAD project. The project for 2017 will be to assess the need for radiation hardening and complete... -
CubeSat Modular Deployable Solar Arrays
Advanced CubeSat missions have demanding power requirements relative to their limited available surface area that drive the need for deployable solar arrays. Vendors have not... -
Sounding rocket payload systems for in-situ measurements of...
<p> The methodology developed under this grant is primarily an effort to develop new sub-payload technologies and an inexpensive method of testing them. The three...