Shuster, JasonGershman, DanielBessho, NaokiWang, ShanUritsky, VadimChen, Li-JenGurram, HarshaSharma, A. SurjalalDorelli, JohnBurch, JamesWebster, JamesSchwartz, StevenDenton, RichardCassak, PaulStawarz, JuliaNg, JonathanPaterson, WilliamSchiff, ConradViñas, AdolfoAvanov, LevonLiu, Yi-HsinLi, Tak ChuArgall, MatthewTorbert, RoyAfshari, AryaPayne, DominicFarrugia, CharlesGenestreti, KevinVerniero, JayeWilder, Frederickda Silva, DanielHaggerty, Colby2024-11-142024-11-142023-07-31Shuster, Jason, Daniel Gershman, Naoki Bessho, Shan Wang, Vadim Uritsky, Li-Jen Chen, Harsha Gurram, et al. “Enabling Unprecedented Exploration of Kinetic Plasma Phenomena: Utilizing and Reaching Beyond the MMS FPI Breakthrough.” Bulletin of the AAS 55, no. 3 (July 31, 2023). https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.98299e2c.https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.98299e2chttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/36982The spectrometer suites onboard NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission offered us an unexpected breakthrough in measurement capability that no spacecraft or laboratory experiment has achieved previously: the ingeniously engineered FPI dual ion and electron spectrometers enable direct measurement of terms in the Vlasov equation for the first time in the history of plasma physics research.12 pagesen-USThis work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.Public Domainhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/Text