TARDiS will view the present state, and future climate influence of the turbulent upper atmosphere of our planet, and also image regions of deep space tracing the birth of stars and planets and unveil their evolution...
Oxford Researchers (led by Prof. Dimitra Rigopoulou) are
participating in a project that was selected for funding by the UK Space Agency
to deploy an innovative remote sensing instrument that will advance research
into Earth Observations (EO) and Astronomy: the Terahertz
Atmospheric/Astrophysics Radiation Detection in Space (TARDiS) will view the
present state, and future climate influence of the turbulent upper atmosphere
of our planet, and also image regions of deep space tracing the birth of stars
and planets and unveil their evolution.
The program is funded by
UK Space Agency as part of the Human Spaceflight
and Microgravity Programme in
conjunction with a second International Space
Station (ISS) mission for
astronaut Tim Peake.
Prof. Rigopoulou
(Principal Investigator of FIRSPEX) said: the TARDiS instrument
is a pathfinder
for two new space missions, the Low Cost Upper Atmosphere
Sounder (LOCUS),for
Earth Observations and the Far-Infrared Spectroscopic Explorer
(FIRSPEX) designed
to probe the origins of stars and planets in the Universe.
The potential
deployment of TARDiS on the ISS is an essential requirement for both
of these
international space missions as it demonstrates the technological readiness
of the projects.
The team is led jointly
by the University of Oxford and STFC RAL Space, the Open
University, University of Leeds,
University College London, STAR Dundee
and
Airbus UK.
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