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The Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics (CEA) opened in September, 1990.
CEA represents
the culmination of twenty years of research and student
training in the field of EUV astronomy brought to focus by
the launch of NASA's research mission, the University of California at Berkeley
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE), on June 7, 1992.
The CEA Science Operations Center (ESOC) controls the instruments
aboard the EUVE science payload and processes its
incoming telemetry data. And in February 1997, CEA
assumed the EUVE spacecraft command and control operations.
Carrying out
the scientific program and operations of the EUVE
mission are presently the core functions of CEA, but these are far from the only
ones. The mission of CEA also consists of:
- Providing an institutional support structure for
CEA researchers to carry out research in:
(a) extreme ultraviolet and ultraviolet astrophysics,
(b) other fields of astrophysics and space science,
(c) innovative technology for low-cost mission
operations, low-cost science operations, and
information systems, and
(d) the implementation of successful education programs.
- Training graduate students.
- Providing undergraduate students with the
unique experience of working on an active satellite program.
- Supporting the investigations of guest users
(guest observers, archival researchers, guest technologists, and teachers)
from around the world on EUVE data.
CEA supports this mission in the following ways.
- Operating both the EUVE satellite and the EUVE science platform.
- Operating an EUVE Science User Support program for Guest Observers and Archive Researchers.
- Operating a technology innovation testbed.
- Operating a science education program with
instructional, research and outreach programs.
The Center
is partially supported by NASA contracts NAS5-30180 and NAS5-29298
administered by the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), and
NCC2-838 administered by AMES.
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