Related Sites

University of Iowa, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Halosat project lead and home institution of Dr. Philip Kaaret, HaloSat Principal Investigator

NASA Cubesats Program. CubeSats are a standardized “nanosatellite” design used by HaloSat

Cygnus resupply mission OA-9E for ISS carrying supplies and several CubeSat missions, including HaloSat.

Orbital ATK Cygnus Spacecraft (Northrup Grummann), manufacturer of the Cygnus spacecraft and the Antares 230 rocket used to launch HaloSat to the ISS.

Blue Canyon Technologies, builder of the spacecraft bus and mission operations center for HaloSat.

Amptek, manufacturer of the three silicon drift detectors, the X-ray science instruments in the HaloSat mission.

Latest News

May 23, 2023

The catalog with the fitting results of the HaloSat Circumgalactic Medium (CGM) fields is now available in the archive.

May 1, 2023

All Halosat data collected during the science operations from Oct 15, 2018 and Sep 29, 2020 were reprocessed (version hsuf_20221026) and are now available from the HEASARC archive. More details are available in the reprocessing page

Dec 14 2022

Release of a report on the Halosat background and an update of the data analysis guide

Feb 14, 2022

Release of a report on the in-flight calibration and an update of the data analysis guide

Feb 12, 2021

The complete HaloSat data archive is now available from the HEASARC. This release includes all data collected during the science operations from Oct 15, 2018 and Sep 29, 2020. The observations include 415 fields covering all the sky.

Jan 4, 2021.

HaloSat reentered Earth's atmosphere on January 4, 2021 marking the end of the satellites nearly two and a half year orbit. More on HaloSat

Apr 15, 2020.

HaloSat archive opens

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