Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter

Launch of ATIC

The Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) is a balloon-borne instrument flying in the stratosphere over Antarctica to measure the energy and composition of cosmic rays. ATIC was launched from McMurdo Station for the first time in December 2000 and has since completed three successful flights out of four.[1]

  1. ^ Overbye, Dennis (25 November 2008). "A Whisper, Perhaps, From the Universe's Dark Side". The New York Times.