Mikel Holcomb, associate professor in the Eberly College Department of Physics and Astronomy, said she expects her team's research into photon detector technologies to influence NASA missions, including the possible 2030 launch of the far-IR Probe as well as the development of technology for the Great Observatories — four observatories, floating in space, that conduct astronomical studies over visible, gamma-ray, X-ray and infrared wavelengths.
An
instrument to be jointly designed and built at the University of Colorado
Boulder (CU Boulder) and the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) has been
selected to fly on NASA’s next mission to study Earth’s upper atmosphere.
