COSI Telescope Comes Together
UC Berkeley engineers and managers watch as the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) detector assembly is slowly raised from a table in this July 8, 2026, image. The four pieces of silver material on the top of the detector box cover the flex circuits, which carry signals from the detectors to the readout electronics. COSI […] The post COSI Telescope Comes Together appeared first on NASA…
Engineers and managers from the University of California, Berkeley gathered to lift the detector assembly of the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) telescope in July of this year, as depicted in a photograph from July 8, 2026. The COSI mission aims to be a wide-field gamma-ray telescope, exploring energetic events throughout the Milky Way and the universe.
Its focus includes studying the creation, destruction, and transformation of matter and antimatter, as well as the final life stages of stars. COSI's collaboration involves multiple institutions, including UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, UC San Diego, the Naval Research Laboratory, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Northrop Grumman, Space Dynamics Laboratory, the Italian Space Agency, and various research institutions.
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