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Other Laboratory Experiments Studying Magnetic Reconnection and Related Phenomena:

• 3D-CS experiments in Russia since 1970
• LPD and LAPD experiments at UCLA since 1980
• TS-3 and TS-4 Experiments at the University of Tokyo, Japan, since 1990
• Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX) at PPPL since 1995
• Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment (SSX) at Swarthmore College since 1996
• VTF experiment at MIT since 1998
• Plasma experiments at Caltech since 1998
• RSX experiment at LANL since 2002
• Line Tied Reconnection experiment at University of Wisconsin - Madison since 2002
• VINETA II experiment at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany, since 2012
• Terrestrial Reconnection Experiment (TREX) at University of Wisconsin - Madison since 2013
• Harbin Reconnection Experiment (HRX) at Harbin Institute of Technology, China
  

Experiments on Other Related Plasma Physics Topics

• Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) at Univeristy of Wisconsin - Madison
• Magnetorotational Instability (MRI) experiment at PPPL
• Madison Dynamo Experiment (MDE) at University of Wisconsin - Madison
• 3m Sodium Dynamo Experiment at University of Maryland
• Plasma Couette Experiment (PCX) at University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Madison Plasma Dynamo Experiment (MPDX) at University of Wisconsin - Madison
• VKS Dynamo Experiment at Cadarache, France
• DRESDYN experiment at Dresden, Germany
• Collisionless Terrella Experiment (CTX) at Columbia University
• Lavitated Dipole Experiment (LDX) at MIT
• Magnetized Dusty Plasma Experiment (MDPX) at Auburn University
• Harbin Dipole Experiment (HDX) at Harbin Institute of Technology, China
  

Magnetosphere and Local Solar Wind Observatories Relevant to Magnetic Reconnection

• GEOTAIL (1992)
• WIND (1994)
  
• FAST (1996)
  
• POLAR (1996)
  
• CLUSTER (2000)
• THEMIS (2007)
  
• Van Allen Probes (2012)
  
• MMS (2015)
• ARASE/ERG (2016)
  
• SMILE (2020)
  
• THOR (2026)
  

Solar Observatories Relevant to Magnetic Reconnection

• YOHKOH (1991)
  
• SOHO (1995)
  
• TRACE (1998)
• RHESSI (2002)
  
• STEREO (2006)
  
• HINODE (2006)
  
• SDO (2010)
• IRIS (2013)
  
• Solar Probe Plus (2018)
• Solar Orbiter (2018)
  

Solar System Observatories Relevant to Magnetic Reconnection

• Voyager (1977)
• New Horizons (2006)
  

Astrophysics Observatories Relevant to Magnetic Reconnection

• CHANDRA (1999)
  
• SUZAKU (2005)
• FERMI (2008)
• NuSTAR (2012)
• HITOMI/ASTRO-H (2016)
• JWST (2018)

Plasma Physics Resources

• NRL Plasma Formulary