First Successful Mission of upGREAT

The far-infrared spectrometer upGREAT, developed and built by a consortium of German research institutes, led by Rolf Güsten from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, recently completed its first successful mission onboard SOFIA. The air-borne observatory SOFIA is a joint project of NASA (USA) and DLR (Germany). Four commissioning flights between May 13 and May 22, 2015, showed the performance of upGREAT.

June 12, 2015