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About CASPER
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The Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Research (CASPER) is a Baylor Center whose experimental facility is built around a partnership between Baylor University and Texas State Technical College-Waco (TSTC) that exists through a signed agreement between the Presidents of the two institutions. Space research within CASPER has a proud heritage dating back to the 1960's and including flight projects from Explorer I forward. Personnel within the Center have been actively involved on a number of NASA and ESA flight missions including Explorer I, Vanguard III, Explorer VI, Explorer VIII, the OGO series, the Atlas Able IV Lunar Satellites, Ranger I, Ranger II, Surveyor, Lunar Explorer 35, Pioneer V, Mariner II, Mariner IV, the Cometary Dust Environment Monitor (CODEM), the Dust Impact Detection System (DIDSY), the European Retrievable Carrier, the Particulate Matter Experiment and the Wakeshield Facility projects. CODEM was a funded (~$7.4 million to Baylor) experimental package on NASA's Comet Rendezvous & Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) mission. Although the CRAF mission was canceled after completion of the design phase, a modest version of the CODEM instrument was flown on two shuttle missions during the 90's and CRAF's sister mission Cassini is now in orbit around Saturn. The Dust Impact Detection System (DIDSY) was flown as part of the European Space Agency Giotto Comet Halley scientific payload.)
CASPER is a fully interdisciplinary center with connections to the Department of Physics, the School of Education and the School of Engineering at Baylor University. There are currently four primary research groups within CASPER, the Astrophysics and Space Science Theory Group (ASSTG), the Early Universe Cosmology and Strings Group (EUCOS), the Gravity, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Group (GCAP)and the experimental group which operates CASPER's Hypervelocity Impacts and Dusty Plasmas Lab (HIDPL) and the Space Science Lab (SSL). The ASSTG and EUCOS are located within the new $103 million dollar Baylor Science Building on the Baylor campus. The HIDPL and the SSL are co-located in a stand alone building on the campus of Texas State Technical College/Waco. These two labs are supplied with full time technical support using TSTC faculty and students with CASPER's technical support staff having worked in the past at Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore & Bell Labs on the Novette, Antares, Helios, Shiva and Argus laser systems.
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