Imperial College is a key member of the Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC), a grouping of five instruments with a common power supply and data processing unit. The Space Magnetometer Laboratory at Imperial College was responsible for building the Plasma Interface Unit, which will serve as the power supply and data management system for the RPC.
Principle investigator on the Plasma interface Unit
Co-investigator in the Rosetta Plasma Consortium.
Imperial College, through Professor Andre Balogh, is also involved in another of the RPC instruments, the fluxgate magnetometer.
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/spat/research/missions/space_missions/rosettahomepage
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