Key instrument characteristics
Dr. W.K. Peterson, Principal Investigator
Dr. E.G. Shelley, Original Principal Investigator
The TIMAS instrument was built for
the NASA Space Physics Division
by the
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Company Space Physics Laboratory in
Palo Alto, California. Major subsystems were designed and built by
The Southwest
Research Insitute, San Antonio, Texas, The
Mullard Space Science Laboratory
University College London, UK, and The University of Berne, Switzerland.
TIMAS was managed from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) of
the University of Colorado after September 2001.
TIMAS data were acquired from March 16, 1996 until April 16, 2008.