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
• Chandrayaan-1: Moon Minerology Mapper (M3)

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