The Max Planck Institute (MPI) is a German research organization that plays a significant role in space exploration, particularly through its institutes focused on astronomy, astrophysics, and solar system research. These institutes, such as the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, develop instruments for space missions and conduct theoretical and experimental research in areas like cosmic plasmas, star formation, exoplanet atmospheres, and solar system bodies. They partner with organizations like NASA and ESA, contributing to missions like the Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, and JUICE. Associated keywords include space research, astrophysics, solar system, space missions, and instrumentation.
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RAVEN is a microsatellite by the Max Planck Institute and TALOS GmbH for the ICARUS 2.0 system to track global wildlife and biodiversity.
The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics built the SRG eROSITA space telescope.
Sherry Suyu is Associate Professor of Observational Cosmology at the Technical University of Munich and a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.
Team members from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) used the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Arizona, employing its twin 8.4-meter mirrors and an adaptive optics system to correct for atmospheric blurring.
Key international collaborators on the Einstein Probe mission include the European Space Agency, the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, and the French National Centre for Space Studies.
Alessandra Buonanno, director of the Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity department at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI), chaired the writing team for the GW250114 study.
Pradeep Chitta of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is the lead author of the study analyzing the 30 September 2024 Solar Orbiter observations.
Researchers from Southwest Research Institute, the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, and the Max Planck Institute used archival Ca II K images from the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory to probe the Sun's chromosphere.
The project drew on cooperation with the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany.
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics supercomputer facilities ran algorithms that reduced SETI@home’s 12 billion candidate signals to 1 million, then to 1,000, and finally to 100 candidates for manual inspection.
Anderson and Korpela used a computing cluster from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics to analyze the signal candidates.
GENA-OT carries the relaunch of the ICARUS satellite-based animal tracking system from the Max Planck Institute, allowing space-based wildlife monitoring experiments to resume after being paused in 2022.
The project involves implementing 64 5B-band receiving systems on each MeerKAT antenna, which includes receivers developed by the Max Planck Institute in Germany under contract with INAF.
The Photospheric Magnetic Field Imager (PMI) is being developed at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) to study the Sun's surface magnetic field.
The RPS will be developed by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in collaboration with the Institute for Space Physics in Kiruna, Sweden.
OHB will work with Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn to develop the first five prototypes of the receivers.
The GRAVITY+ project is led by the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE).
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research prepared the JUICE measurement campaign for observations of 3I/ATLAS.
Observation planning for 4MOST is coordinated remotely from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching.
A study conducted by ETH Zurich, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, and UCLA shows that sub-Neptunes cannot retain massive oceans beneath hydrogen-rich atmospheres.