Observational Cosmology Laboratory

Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER)

Class:

Flight Project

Status:

Operational

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The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) is a balloon-borne mission to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in search of the signature of primordial gravity waves excited by an inflationary epoch in the early universe.

Key Staff
    diagram of PIPER instrument