Montana State University scientists to design optics for new solar mission

Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun’s atmosphere.

As a partner on the IRIS team headed by Lockheed Martin, MSU will receive about $3 million to design an optical system for a telescope that could be launched on a NASA rocket in 2012, said solar physicist Charles Kankelborg. If Lockheed Martin agrees, MSU could receive another $2 million for an associated project involving MSU students.

"It is really exciting," Kankelborg said.

By Evelyn Boswell, MSU News Service

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