U2 Anisotropy An experiment done in the late 1970's on the isotropy of the cosmic microwave background. This experiment discovered the dipole anisotropy of the CMB. It was a precursor to the COBE DMR experiment that found a whole spectrum of anisotropies in the CMB.

Balloon-Borne Anisotropy An experiment done in the 1980's on the isotropy of the cosmic microwave background. This experiment made a map of the CMB first order (dipole) anisotropy and set stringent limits on higher order CMB anisotropies. It was a test bed and precursor for the 90 GHz (3-mm wavelength) of the COBE DMR experiment that found a whole spectrum of anisotropies in the CMB.

CMB Polarization An experiment done in the 1980's on the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. This experiment set stringent limits CMB polarization. The first experiment was a thesis for Professor Phil Lubin. The second experiment was a thesis for Professor Philip Melese d'Hospital.

CMB Spectrum Observations This was a series of instruments and observations to measure the long wavelength spectrum of the cosmic microwave background.

Balloon-borne Cosmic Ray Experiments were a series of balloon-borne superconducting magnetic spectrometers designed search for antimatter in the Universe and measure the abundance and energy spectra of Galactic cosmic rays.

Astromag was a superconducting magnetic spectrometer designed to operate on Space Station Freedom. The restructuring of the Space Station program left us without a place to be attached. A revamped version spectrometer using rare-earth permanent magnets is now in progress. The new project is called AMS and its team is lead by Professor Samuel C.C. Ting of MIT.

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