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University of Maryland Baltimore County
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Public research university whose Earth and Space Institute designed and built the HARP2 polarimeter contributed to NASA's PACE mission.
The University of Maryland Baltimore County is a public research university in Baltimore County, Maryland, and a space-instrument contributor through its Earth and Space Institute.[1] UMBC designed and built HARP2, a wide-angle imaging polarimeter contributed to the PACE mission.[2] HARP2 is on orbit on PACE, and public HARP2 data were released in 2024.[3] The instrument data support aerosol, cloud, air-quality and climate research through multi-angle polarimetric observations.[3][2] UMBC role is instrument contribution and research capability rather than commercial Earth-observation data operation.[2][1]
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- [1]NASA PACE HARP2 Polarimeter pageagency doc2026-06-26
- [2]First data from UMBC HARP2 instrument on NASA PACE mission goes publicoperator press2026-06-26
- [3]UMBC Earth and Space Institute official siteoperator marketing2026-06-26