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Facilities: Off-Campus
In addition to our labs in Van Allen Hall and the IATL building, we also use these major facilities:
Accelerators:
CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Observatories:
Chandra X-ray Observatory
European Very Large Telescope (8 meter optical telescope)
Hubble Space Telescope
SWIFT (spacecraft observatory for gamma ray bursts)
VERITAS Ground-Based TeV Telescope Array
Very Large Array (VLA)
Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Winer Observatory (Arizona)
XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory
Spacecraft:
Cassini
Cluster
Juno
Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS)
Mars Express
Radiation Belt Storm Probes
UCLA:
Large Plasma Device
Sounding-Rocket Ranges:
Poker Flat Research Range
White Sands Missile Range