Small Explorer (SMEX) Concept Studies

Seven SMEX Missions and One Mission of Opportunity Selected for Concept Study & One Mission of Opportunity Selected for Flight

SMEX Missions (selected for study)

• AIM: Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (description) (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: James M. Russell, Hampton University
• HNX: Heavy Nuclei Explorer (description) (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: W. Robert Binns, Washington University, St. Louis
• JMEX: Jupiter Magnetospheric Explorer (description) (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: Nicholas M. Schneider, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Joule (description) (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: Richard L. Kelley, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
• PRIME: The Primordial Explorer (description) (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: Wei Zheng, The Johns Hopkins University
• SPIDR: Spectroscopy and Photometry of IGM's Diffuse Radiation (description) (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: Supriya Chakrabarti, Boston University
• STEP: Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle (description) (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: C. W. Francis Everitt, Stanford University

Mission of Opportunity (selected for study)

• SPEAR: Spectroscopy of Plasma Evolution from Astrophysical Radiation (description) (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: Jerry Edelstein, University of California, Berkeley

Mission of Opportunity (selected for flight)

• CINDI: Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigation (description) (abstract)
  Principal Investigator: Roderick A. Heelis, University of Texas, Dallas

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Last Updated: 19 February 2001
Author: Paul Hertz (Code SR)