====== The Solar Probe Analyzer for Ions (SPAN-Ion) ======
**Keywords:** space, mass spectrometry, electrostatic analyzer, solar wind

===== Objectives: A Hierarchy =====
  * **Space Agencies:** Improve our understanding of the formation and transport of the solar wind and plasma to protect astronauts and hardware
  * **NASA:** Measure the ion composition and 3D distribution of the solar wind and coronal plasma
  * **Berkeley SSL:** Develop time-of-flight hardware for a time-of-flight ion mass spectrometer
  * **Pister Group:** Design a sensor frontend which converts analog to digital pulses with timing independent of input pulse height

===== How It's Going =====
As of February 2022, it's still going! We taped out a chip in TSMC180nm on July 21, 2021.

===== Pisterbots! =====
Current:
  * [[members:lydia_lee|Lydia Lee]]

Former/Graduated:
  * Mia Mirkovic (UMich Space Physics Research Lab)
  * Artun Dalyan
  * Peter Peng