after cobe, smoot helped with another experiment with a stratospheric balloon called the maxima experiment. this ballon took some better measurements than the cobe. smoot has continued studying cosmic radiatin and now works on the third generation cobe satellite planck. he is also working on the design of a supernova/acceleration probe (snap), a satellite which is to measure dark energy. he has also assisted in analyzing data from the spitzer space telescope in connection with measuring far infrared background radiation.