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Space Plasma Physics Particles & Imaging Research Group |
This is The University of Iowa, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Space Plasma Physics Research Group led by Dr. Louis A. Frank. The research group is situated in Van Allen Hall on The University of Iowa Main Campus in Iowa City, Iowa, USA. Van Allen Hall is named after Dr. James A. Van Allen, a leading pioneer in Space Plasma Physics Research. His instruments were the very first flown in space by US rockets in the early days of the space program, including Explorer 1 which was the United States' first successful orbiting satellite. It made measurements that lead to the discovery of the two highly charged particle, or radiation regions which encircle Earth. These were later named in his honor as the Van Allen Radiation Belts.
31 January 2018 was the 60th Anniversary of the Launch of the Explorer 1 Satellite
27 January 2020 marked the 25th Anniversary of this Web Site
27 January 2025 will mark the 30th Anniversary of this Web Site
Due to the expiration of funding, this web site was shutdown 18 Aug 2024.
In Sep 2024 it was relocated to a different web server on a new host provided by
Iowa Space Physics Data Respository (SPDR)
Courtesy of the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust