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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)
  • National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
  • SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
 BaBar experiment
   

Observatories:

  • Arecibo
  • Very Large Array (VLA)
  • Owens Valley Millimeter Array (OVRO)
  • Chandra X-ray Observatory
  • Winer Observatory (Arizona)
 Very Large Array
 

Spacecraft:

  • Cassini
  • Cluster
  • Galileo
  • Mars Express
  • Pioneer 10
  • Polar
Cluster satellite
   

Aircraft:

  • NASA KC-135
 Weightless astronaut
   

UCLA:

  • Large Plasma Device
 Large plasma device
 

University of Alaska:

  • Poker Flat Research Range
 Black Brant rocket

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