The 48-inch ITEK Optical Telescope was awarded to Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and NJIT by the United States Air Force at Kirtland AFB in  New Mexico and will be the second largest telescope east of the Mississippi River.  It will be used for observational astronomy and imaging and as a receiver for a UV LIDAR system to study lower and mid-level atmospheric phenomena related to gravity waves.

The 6-foot Alcatel-Lucent Solar Radio SpectroPolarimeter was originally mounted on the roof of a Bell Laboratories building in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It will automatically track from sunrise to sunset on a daily basis recording the sun's radio emissions and solar storm events. It will be employed to listen to Jupiter once the sun has set.

The NanoTesla LNV-01 Triaxial FluxGate Magnetometer is a highly sensitive instrument that records the direction and intensity of the earth's magnetic field at our location on Jenny Jump mountain. Data continually recorded at two-second intervals are highly influenced by space weather in the magnetosphere. The primary sources of space weather are variations in electromagnetic and particulate output of the sun.

The multichannel Leica GRX1230 GPS is not used to determine location. It is used to derive and map the total electron content in the upper atmosphere. It detects changes in the plasma density due to time of day, season, atmospheric water vapor, and solar activity and will be employed to measure the horizontal component of gravity waves.