Aspera
NASA’s Aspera SmallSat is a planned Astrophysics Pioneers mission that will study galaxy evolution by observing ultraviolet light from hot gas in the intergalactic medium and the inflow and outflow of gas around galaxies.
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- Aspera MissionAspera SmallSat
- Name
- Aspera
- Status
- planned
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- Description
- NASA’s Aspera SmallSat is a planned Astrophysics Pioneers mission that will study galaxy evolution by observing ultraviolet light from hot gas in the intergalactic medium and the inflow and outflow of gas around galaxies.
- Destination
- 600–900-km sun-synchronous dawn-dusk low Earth orbit for mapping warm-hot circumgalactic gas around nearby galaxy halos
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- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 19:16:07 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 22, 2026 at 08:29:38 UTC
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