The ICON mission is to be led by the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley. Thomas Immel is the Principle Investigator of the ICON mission. ICON will provide NASA’s Heliophysics division with a powerful new capability to determine the conditions in space modified by weather on the planet, and to understand the way space weather events grow to envelop regions of our planet with dense ionospheric plasma. In Friday’s interview Dr. Immel talks about the ICON Explorer, the instruments that will be on ICON, what they hope to learn from the mission, how they will integrate the instruments, and what will happen to the data they collect.
Thomas Immel on Spectrum
On Friday, June 14th @ noon, Spectrum will air part two of the interview with Thomas Immel. Immel, an Assistant Research Physicist at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley. In April 2013 NASA selected the Ionospheric Connection Explorer or ICON to be the next Heliophysics Explorer satellite mission.
