The research group works to design, build, test, and operate instruments for measuring electromagnetic fields and cosmic dust grains in diverse space plasma environments such as planetary magnetospheres, planetary ionospheres, the lunar surface, and the solar wind. The group’s primary experience is with the measurement of electric fields, with a focus on analog and digital signal processing.

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DUSTER (DUst and plaSma environmenT survEyoR)

Status: Instrument Design and Build

Debris and meteoroid ENvironment Sensor (DENTS): Instrument Technology Development

Status: Technology Development in Progress

COUSIN Sounding Rocket

Status: Planned launch: Nov. 2026

Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment (LuSEE)

In Development, Planned Launch: Fall 2027

Climatology of Anthropogenic and Natural VLF wave Activity in Space (CANVAS) Cubesat

On orbit: launched April 2026

Parker Solar Probe

Active, Launched on Aug. 12, 2018

Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)

Active, Launched on  March 13, 2015

Plasma Imaging, LOcal measurement, and Tomographic experiment (PILOT)

Status: Submitted to the 2024 Heliophysics Decadal Survey

Geospace Dynamics Constellation AETHER Instrument

Status: Phase B Instrument Development

Van Allen Probes

Decommissioned (Launched on August 30, 2012, Decommissioned in October 2019)