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Space Missions
Some of the most comprehensive and detailed studies of the CMB are carried out by spaced based instruments. Below is the current list of space missions that focus on CMB measurements.
| Experiment | Description | Year | Data Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| COBE | COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) was developed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to measure the diffuse infrared and microwave radiation from the early universe. | 1989-1993 | DATA |
| Planck | Planck is the third Medium-Sized Mission (M3) of ESA's Horizon 2000 Scientific Program. The basic scientific goal of the Planck mission is to measure CMB anisotropies at all angular scales larger than 5 to 10 arcminutes over the entire sky with a precision of ~2 parts per million. | Future | N/A |
| Relikt | Relikt-1 on Prognoz 9 mapped the sky at 37 GHz with an angular resolution of 5.5 degrees and a temperature resolution of 0.2 mK. | 1983-1984 | N/A |
| SPOrt | SPOrt (Sky Polarization Observatory) is a planned International Space Station experiment, initended to measure the sky polarization in the frequency range 20-90 GHz. | Future | N/A |
| WMAP | WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) is designed to determine the geometry, content, and evolution of the universe via a 13 arcminute FWHM resolution full sky map of the temperature anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. | 2001-Present | DATA |
