News Archive

Front Range team wins NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge with innovative idea for lunar “service station”

LASP at AGU 2023

Looking back at 75: Honoring LASP’s contributions to historic missions

CU to showcase 75 years of innovation and impact at the 38th Space Symposium

CU Boulder leads in NASA astrophysics technology grants to universities

LASP at AGU 2022

CTIM: testing future technology to extend one of the “most important” Earth science measurements

CU Boulder receives NASA grant to develop new technology to monitor space weather effects

LASP instrument selected for the next NASA ‘Living With a Star’ mission

LASP’s Hybrid Solar Reference Spectrum named new international standard for climate research

A leader in aerospace: CU innovation to be highlighted at the 37th Space Symposium

‘Go for launch’—the next GOES satellite to include instrument built at CU Boulder

NASA awards $14 million to CU-LASP for two new CubeSat missions

Mapping the three-dimensional paths of electromagnetic waves from outer space to the ground

NASA to fund LASP’s new OWLS instrument

LASP-led research shows how hypervelocity dust impacts can affect a spacecraft and its operations

NASA selects UC Berkeley – Compton Spectrometer and Imager for next Explorers Program mission

LASP: ‘Boldly going’ where no space science research institute has gone before

United Arab Emirates and LASP announce new mission to explore the asteroid belt

LASP researcher and Aerospace Engineering professor Xinlin Li elected a 2021 AGU Fellow

CUTE, LASP’s latest cereal box-sized spacecraft, to study ‘Hot Jupiter’ exoplanets

LASP rocket flight to sharpen NASA’s study of the Sun

LASP researcher Scott Piggott named AIAA Professional Engineer of the Year

Emirates Mars Mission to Arrive at Mars on Feb. 9th in partnership with LASP at CU Boulder

LASP researchers develop method to clean lunar dust from surfaces

Emirates Mars Mission launched July 19th in partnership with LASP at CU Boulder

ESCAPE funded for Phase A concept study

TSIS-2 funded to continue 40 years of solar measurements

LASP awarded Earth Venture Mission Libera

CU Boulder leads the nation in Cubesat launches

GOLD reveals unexpected changes in Earth’s nighttime ionosphere

An infrared close up of the moon

NASA selects LASP-led IMPACT center to conduct dust-related research

MAVEN sets its sights beyond Mars

From concept to satellite instrument in three months

New Horizons goes beyond the known world

Small satellites tackle big scientific questions

Engineers, students played key role in hunt for alien worlds

NASA retires LASP-operated Kepler space telescope

In its final days, Cassini bathed in “ring rain”

MAVEN selfie marks four years in orbit at Mars

NASA’s GOLD instrument captures its first image of the Earth

Students race robots, write code at hands-on summer camp

Here comes the Sun: New spacecraft to fly closer than ever before

The outer limits: New satellite to probe solar system’s edges

LASP sounding rocket takes a second look at the Sun

GOES-17 shares first data from EXIS instrument

CHESS-4 will examine building blocks of stars and planets

NASA powers on LASP instrument suite staring at the Sun

LASP-led CubeSat will study Earth’s inner radiation belt

NOAA satellite launches with LASP space weather instrument onboard

GOLD launches successfully onboard SES-14 satellite

GOLD team successfully completes environmental testing

TSIS instrument package ready for lift-off to ISS

Four decades and counting: TSIS continues measuring solar energy input to Earth

LASP to collaborate on new Grand Challenge projects

LASP scientists ready for Cassini’s grand finale

The Voyager spacecraft: 40 years in space, surreal solar system discoveries

Building education satellites: LASP leads international team

TSIS shipped to Kennedy Space Center for upcoming launch

CHESS mission will check out the space between stars

1,000 Days in Orbit: MAVEN’s Top 10 Discoveries at Mars

GOLD installed on commercial communications satellite

Unique changes to comet 67P observed by Rosetta spacecraft

GOES-16 EXIS observes solar flares

GOLD one step closer to launching into space

LASP will lead operations for NASA black holes mission

Ready for launch: Instrument suite to assess space weather

MAVEN spacecraft completes one Mars year of science observations

MinXSS CubeSat fills critical gap in measuring the sun

Launching rockets and STEM dreams for first-generation students

LASP scientists, students primed for Juno arrival at Jupiter

LASP research points to electrostatic dust transport in reshaping airless planetary bodies

Sounding rocket EVE supports tune-up of SDO EVE instrument

MinXSS CubeSat set to deploy from ISS, study sun’s soft X-rays

Cassini Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust

Student Dust Counter got few “hits” during Pluto flyby

LASP-built instrument to study the birthplace of stars and planets

LASP-built MinXSS CubeSat to study solar flares, X-rays emitted by the sun

MAVEN Mission Reveals Speed of Solar Wind Stripping Martian Atmosphere

Instrument designed by CU Boulder students speeds by Pluto on historic New Horizons mission

MAVEN Results Find Mars Behaving Like a Rock Star

LASP instrument selected for NASA mission to Europa

Using a Sounding Rocket to Help Calibrate NASA’s SDO

PRESS RELEASE: United Arab Emirates to partner with CU-Boulder on 2021 Mars mission

After successful mission to Mercury, spacecraft on a crash course with history

PRESS RELEASE: GOLD Approved for Final Design and Fabrication

LASP cubesat will study the sun in soft X-rays

MMS launches to study magnetic reconnection

MMS Prepared for Launch to Study Earth’s Dynamic Magnetic Space Environment

LASP-built instrument on New Horizons readies for Pluto encounter

MAVEN spacecraft’s first look at Mars holds surprises

NASA Shares What MAVEN Spacecraft Has Seen in its First Few Weeks at Mars

MAVEN returns first Mars observations

LASP-led MAVEN mission enters orbit around Mars

New Earth-Observing Instrument Makes Successful Balloon Flight

LASP-led Mars mission set for orbit insertion on Sept. 21

Latest CubeSat project strengthens partnership with aerospace industry

LASP instrument aboard NASA lunar mission set to impact moon