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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:

Former/Graduated:

  • Mia Mirkovic (UMich Space Physics Research Lab)
  • Artun Dalyan
  • Peter Peng
span_ion.txt · Last modified: 2022/03/04 09:59 by lydialee