Bear Fight Research Center

Columbus Technologies and Services, Inc.'s Bear Fight Research Center provides space science mission planning, instrument design and science data analysis for several international satellites to a variety of research organizations including:

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  UCLA
  Brown University
  NASA Headquarters

Recent research activities include:
Composition and structure of the surfaces of Solar System objects

• Ices and non-ice materials and molecules on the surface of the Galilean satellites

• Evolution and present state of Ceres

Optical properties of geologically interesting materials

• the formation and stability of hydrated and hydroxylated minerals

• Adiolysis of ices, carbon-bearing, and hydrated materials.

Current and on-going areas include the study of Small Ice-silicate Bodies.

Research topics and spacecraft missions include Galileo NIMS,Cassini VIMS,Mars Express, HRSC, OMEGA and PFS, Rosetta VIRTIS, DAWN, Europa Orbiter (planning) and Chandrayaan-1: Moon Minerology Mapper (M3)

For more information visit Columbus's Bear Fight Center website at http://www.bearfightcenter.com