INSTRUMENTS

Previous Projects

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CalTech Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment

Meer Instruments has designed and fabricated hardware for a variety of scientific groups, ranging from NASA funded projects to oceanographic related instrumentation, including custom underwater cameras and devices which monitor marine mammal behavior.  

   NOTE: we will be adding hardware specifications, options, and system performance characteristics in the summer of 2004...

Some Images from Meer Instruments

• HIREGS II (69K): charge control
• FLARE GENESIS (60K): charge control
• Inside FLARE GENESIS (52K): charge control
• Recovery (102K): 1979, Cape Washington (Kooyman et al)
• Sub-Antarctic (127K): local support, Bay of Isles, South Georgia
• Grounded (114K): icebergs, South Georgia 

Some Related Balloon Links

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•    NASA Balloon Facility, NSBF - http://www.nsbf.nasa.gov/index.html

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• NASA Ballooning Program - http://www.wff.nasa.gov/~code820/ 

Some Previous Projects

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Kathryn Hire on ALFE, STS-90

• UC San Diego, ALFE , pulmonary hardware - Columbia: STS-40/58/78/90 - 1991/'93/'96/'98 

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•  (29K)  CalTech, BOOMERANG - http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~ruhl_lab/boom/BoomIntro.html
• Italian collaborators, BOOMERANG  (great site!) - http://oberon.roma1.infn.it/boomerang/

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• UC Berkeley, HIREGS - http://plasma2.ssl.berkeley.edu/balloon/     (22K)
• UC San Diego, HIREGS - http://mamacass.ucsd.edu:8080/balloon/hiregs3.html

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   (67K)  University of Washington, JACEE - http://marge.phys.washington.edu/jacee/jacee-10/index.html

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• Johns-Hopkins, FLARE GENESIS - http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/FlareGenesis/    (62K)

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•  (22K)  LSU Project, ATIC - http://atic.phys.lsu.edu/aticweb/

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• University of Chicago, TRACER - http://tracer.uchicago.edu/     (28K)

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