Associate Professor Allison Jaynes has received a $44,018 award from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory to support the development of a University of Iowa energetic particle detector instrument for a CubeSat concept mission to study energetic precipitation into the atmosphere from space, particularly during times of a widespread, common type of aurora called pulsating aurora.

“The Loss Through Auroral Microburst Pulsations Satellite (LAMPsat) Flight Opportunity Study” team consists of partners from APL, the University of Colorado Boulder, NASA Goddard and Japanese institutions.