PVO entry into Venus Atmosphere
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UCLA is recognized internationally as a leader in planetary and space
physics. UCLA space physicists participated in the very earliest space
missions such as the Mariner and Pioneer series. They supplied flux
ISEE Launch
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gate and search coil magnetometers and particle spectrometers for the
Orbiting Geophysical Observatories; magnetometers for the Advanced
Technology Satellites 1 and 5, for International Sun Earth Explorers 1
and 2; for the Apollo 15 and 16 subsatellites around the moon; for the
Pioneer Venus Orbiter; for the Active Magnetospheric Plasma Transfer
Experiment; for the Galileo mission to Jupiter for the POLAR and
FAST missions around the Earth, for the Australian FedSat mission, NASA's three spacecraft ST5 mission and the US Orion mission. UCLA space physicists have also
participated in the VEGA mission to Halley; the Phobos mission to Mars;
and the NEAR mission to the asteriod 433 Eros.
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Past Missions