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    When Worlds Collide: Inauguration of the Munich Center for Geoastronomy

    5–6 Oct 2026
    LMU Main Building (Hauptgebäude)
    Europe/Berlin timezone
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    Scientific Talk: The HECATE space mission. A German Helium Geocorona and Atmosphere exploration satellite

    6 Oct 2026, 14:00
    30m
    A 140 (LMU Main Building (Hauptgebäude))

    A 140

    LMU Main Building (Hauptgebäude)

    Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München

    Speaker

    Dr Frank Grupp (LMU and MPI-Extraterrestrial Physics, Munich)

    Description

    HECATE is our proposal to investigate the Helium Geocorona, the highly dynamical major source of drag on spacecrafts in LEO-MEO orbits. Utilizing a high resolution UV-VIS spectrometer we plan to use the Earth as a proxy for exoplanets and answer question related to solar activity, metal enrichment and geolocial processes in the earths upper atmosphere.

    Author

    Dr Frank Grupp (LMU and MPI-Extraterrestrial Physics, Munich)

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