Cold atom laboratory mission system design

Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) is a multi-user facility that will provide the ability to study ultra-cold quantum gases in a microgravity environment. The laboratory is an internal payload that will operate on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2016. Principal Investigators from various universities will trade off in designing experiment sequences that vary different parameters, such as magnetic field strength or timing. The primary science data consists of two images of the cold atoms captured successively at the end of each experiment.