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.
![Pulsating aurora](/sites/physics.uiowa.edu/files/2023-11/pulsating_aurora.gif)
“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.