Aug 2026· Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation· Vol 14149, pp. 141491V - 141491V-11· 1 citation· 17 references
Engineering
Abstract
The Coronal Spectropolarimeter for Airborne Infrared Research (CORSAIR) is a balloon-borne infrared coronagraph and spectropolarimeter funded by NASA's Heliophysics Low Cost Access to Space (H-LCAS) program and currently under development at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). CORSAIR will make global, long-duration measurements of temperature, density, velocity and magnetic field in the solar corona by measuring the polarization state of five emission lines with wavelengths from 1 to 4 μm. The project incorporates various engineering challenges associated with making high-resolution, high-sensitivity observations spanning two octaves in wavelength in a low-cost package on a balloon-borne platform. CORSAIR is currently undergoing integration, alignment, testing, and calibration in preparation for its engineering qualification flight in late summer 2026. In this paper, we describe the scientific goals, instrument design, ongoing integration, and plans for the qualification flight.
EXCITE (the EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) is a balloon-borne telescope designed to study atmospheres around exoplanets and other worlds beyond our own solar system. Led by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, EXCITE aims to collect infrared sensor data observed during circumpolar long-duration scientific balloon...
Corey D. Packard, Logan R. Canull, Jacob Wainio et al.· Astronomical Telescopes + In...· 0 citations
The Balloon-borne VLBI EXperiment (BVEX) is aimed at proving that a radio telescope mounted on a high-altitude helium balloon can be partnered with ground-based radio dishes to create an Earth-spanning radio telescope. BVEX uses VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry), a powerful technique used in radio astronomy wher...
The GeoXO Sounder (GXS) is a future NOAA/NASA instrument to collect real-time radiance data of the Earth’s atmosphere from the geostationary orbit. It is a hyperspectral infrared imager with high spectral, spatial, and temporal resolutions over the sounding disk of the western hemisphere. The GXS data will be used to r...
Xiao-Pei Huang, T. Kampe, N. Siegel et al.· Earth Observing Systems XXXI· 0 citations
Ardua is a mission concept proposed for NASA’s ASTRA Initiative and submitted to COPAG and PhysPAG, combining Far-UV (FUV) and X-ray instruments to investigate the baryon cycle connecting stars to the cosmic web through observations of the circumgalactic medium (CGM). This proceeding focuses on the preliminary optical...
Changgone Kim, Pierre R. Nicolas, Haeun Chung et al.· Optical Modeling and Perform...· 0 citations
AIRS is the infrared spectroscopic instrument of ARIEL: Atmospheric Remote‐sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large‐survey mission adopted in November 2020 as the Cosmic Vision M4 ESA mission and planned to be launched in 2032 by an Ariane 6 from Kourou toward a large amplitude orbit around L2 for a 4 years mission. Within the...
B. Horeau, J. Amiaux, Clara Bataillon et al.· Astronomical Telescopes + In...· 3 citations
The Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a near-infrared time-domain survey instrument operating on a dedicated robotic 1 m telescope at Palomar Observatory. Since June of 2023, WINTER has surveyed the sky nightly to a median depth of JAB = 18.5 mag. The survey balances a variety of science programs, incl...
D. Frostig, N. Lourie, V. Karambelkar et al.· Publications of the Astronom...· 0 citations
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