Astronomy and Space

Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment

The Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment (CIRBE) was a NASA sponsored CubeSat mission. The mission's science instrument REPTile-2 was designed and built by scientists, engineers, and students at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). The CIRBE mission was a joint effort by LASP and the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. The mission principal investigator was Professor Xinlin Li with co-investigators Richard Selesnick, Rick Kohnert, and Scott Palo. It was the successor mission to the Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment. CIRBE launched on April 15, 2023, on a Falcon 9 rocket by SpaceX on Transporter-7 as part of NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI). The spacecraft began operations on April 19, 2023, and remained operational (except for a two-month period from April to June 2023) until it reentered on October 4, 2024. The CIRBE team has publicly released data products on the mission's website.

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• ▸(175706) 1996 FG3
• ▸Bastarnae
• ▸Electrostatic analyzer

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