Planck enables us to answer some of the most important questions of modern science: How did the Universe begin, how did it evolve into its current state, and how will it evolve in the future? The objective of Planck was to analyse, with unprecedented precision, the remnants of the radiation that filled the Universe right after the Big Bang, and that we observe today as the Cosmic Microwave Background.
Contact at IAS: Nabila Aghanim & Jean-Loup Puget
PILOT (Polarized Instrument for Long wavelength Observation of the Tenuous interstellar medium) is a balloon-borne astrophysics experiment (CNES) designed for the measurement of the polarised light emmitted by interstellar dust grains.
Contact at IAS: Bruno Maffei
BISOU (Balloon Interferometer for Spectral Observations of the primordial Universe) is a balloon-borne pathfinder aiming at detecting spectral distortions in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) using a spectrometer.
