Medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) Concept Studies

Four MIDEX Missions and One Mission of Opportunity Selected for Concept Study

MIDEX Missions (selected for study)

• ABE: Astrobiology Explorer (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: Scott A. Sandford, NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA
• ASCE: Advanced Spectrographic and Coronagraphic Explorer (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: John L. Kohl, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA
• NGSS: Next Generation Sky Survey (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: Edward L. Wright, University of California, Los Angeles
• THEMIS: Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California, Berkeley

Mission of Opportunity (selected for study)

• EUSO: U.S. Participation in the Extreme Universe Space Observatory Mission (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: James H. Adams, Jr., NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL

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Last Updated: 11 May 2002
Author: Paul Hertz (Code SZ)