Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment

*CIBER*
General Informations
Organization	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech
Mission Type	Sounding rocket
Launch	2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2021
Wavelength	Infrared
Website	CIBER Home Page
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The Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) was a payload flown aboard Black Brant XII sounding rockets to collect data about cosmic infrared background. In 2014 results from CIBER indicated an excess of infrared light, beyond what is emitted by galaxies.[1]

A NASA Black Brant XII suborbital rocket following its launch on June 5, 2013 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia carrying the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) to an altitude of approximately 358 miles above the Atlantic Ocean.

After the conclusion of the CIBER mission, the research into cosmic infrared background is being (as of 2021) pursued by a follow-on mission, CIBER-2. CIBER-2 is a successor to CIBER using similar techniques (with improvements, naturally) and also launching into suborbital space aboard a sounding rocket.[2] CIBER-2 was launched on 7 June 2021 aboard a Black Brant IX rocket. A second flight of CIBER-2 is scheduled for 16 April 2023.[3]

References

Philips, Tony (2014-11-06). "NASA Rocket Redefines What Astronomers Think of as Galaxies".
"Ciber-2".
Auburn, Luke (14 April 2023). "RIT scientists aim to understand the history of light production in the universe through the CIBER-2 experiment". Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved 16 April 2023.

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[1] Philips, Tony (2014-11-06). "NASA Rocket Redefines What Astronomers Think of as Galaxies".

[2] "Ciber-2".

[3] Auburn, Luke (14 April 2023). "RIT scientists aim to understand the history of light production in the universe through the CIBER-2 experiment". Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved 16 April 2023.