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Category: Mission Operations

LASP welcomes University of Colorado Board of Regents

February 15, 2024

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

October 11, 2023

LASP announces new director of mission operations and data systems

August 30, 2023

TSIS-1: Five years of solar science and counting

March 24, 2023

NASA robotic mission to explore the Moon’s mysterious Gruithuisen Domes

July 6, 2022

LASP-led mission to continue crucial climate record passes major milestone

May 12, 2022

CU’s LASP to lead operations for new NASA mission to ‘find asteroids before they find us’

April 11, 2022

LASP students gain hands-on experience operating the IXPE mission

January 25, 2022

LASP students, staff are ready to operate NASA’s new IXPE mission to study black holes

December 6, 2021

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

October 13, 2021

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

October 6, 2021

NASA’s MAVEN mission begins a new chapter with a new leader

September 9, 2021

Hope Probe captures new images of Mars with the Emirates Ultraviolet Spectrometer

March 9, 2021

Hope Probe returns its first image of Mars capturing Olympus Mons at Sunrise

February 14, 2021

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

July 14, 2020

TSIS-2 funded to continue 40 years of solar measurements

April 22, 2020

MAVEN sets its sights beyond Mars

April 29, 2019

New Horizons goes beyond the known world

January 7, 2019

NASA retires LASP-operated Kepler space telescope

October 30, 2018

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

October 4, 2018

MAVEN selfie marks four years in orbit at Mars

September 20, 2018

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

September 17, 2018

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

August 8, 2018

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

July 26, 2018

LASP sounding rocket takes a second look at the Sun

June 15, 2018

GOES-17 shares first data from EXIS instrument

May 31, 2018

CHESS-4 will examine building blocks of stars and planets

March 23, 2018

NASA powers on LASP instrument suite staring at the Sun

March 15, 2018

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

March 15, 2018

NOAA satellite launches with LASP space weather instrument onboard

March 2, 2018

GOLD launches successfully onboard SES-14 satellite

January 25, 2018

MAVEN mission sheds light on habitability of distant planets

December 13, 2017

TSIS instrument package ready for lift-off to ISS

December 8, 2017

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

November 28, 2017

LASP scientists ready for Cassini’s grand finale

September 13, 2017

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

August 31, 2017

TSIS shipped to Kennedy Space Center for upcoming launch

August 4, 2017

CHESS mission will check out the space between stars

June 23, 2017

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

June 16, 2017

NASA’s Van Allen Probes spot man-made barrier shrouding Earth

May 17, 2017

Cassini starts its grand finale

April 26, 2017

Unique changes to comet 67P observed by Rosetta spacecraft

March 21, 2017

GOES-16 EXIS observes solar flares

February 3, 2017

GOLD one step closer to launching into space

February 1, 2017

Ready for launch: Instrument suite to assess space weather

November 10, 2016

MAVEN spacecraft completes one Mars year of science observations

October 3, 2016

MinXSS CubeSat fills critical gap in measuring the sun

September 30, 2016

LASP scientists, students primed for Juno arrival at Jupiter

June 23, 2016

Sounding rocket EVE supports tune-up of SDO EVE instrument

May 18, 2016

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

May 13, 2016

Cassini Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust

April 13, 2016

Student Dust Counter got few “hits” during Pluto flyby

March 18, 2016

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

December 3, 2015

MAVEN Mission Reveals Speed of Solar Wind Stripping Martian Atmosphere

November 6, 2015

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

July 14, 2015

MAVEN Results Find Mars Behaving Like a Rock Star

June 20, 2015

Using a Sounding Rocket to Help Calibrate NASA’s SDO

May 19, 2015

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

May 7, 2015

CU-Boulder hitches a ride to space on commercial satellite

April 16, 2015

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

April 16, 2015

MAVEN spacecraft detects aurora and mysterious dust cloud around Mars

March 18, 2015

MMS launches to study magnetic reconnection

March 13, 2015

CU-Boulder students to help control instruments on MMS from LASP

March 4, 2015

LASP-built instrument on New Horizons readies for Pluto encounter

December 3, 2014

Mars spacecraft, including MAVEN, reveal comet flyby effects on Martian atmosphere

November 7, 2014

MAVEN spacecraft’s first look at Mars holds surprises

October 14, 2014

MAVEN returns first Mars observations

September 24, 2014

LASP-led MAVEN mission enters orbit around Mars

September 21, 2014

New Earth-Observing Instrument Makes Successful Balloon Flight

August 28, 2014

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

August 27, 2014

Latest CubeSat project strengthens partnership with aerospace industry

June 25, 2014

Kepler receives two-year extension for K2 mission

May 16, 2014

LASP instrument aboard NASA lunar mission set to impact moon

April 3, 2014

MAVEN on Track to Carry Out its Science Mission

February 4, 2014

Lunar mission with LASP instrument receives extension

February 3, 2014

MAVEN launched to study upper atmosphere of Mars

November 19, 2013

LASP balloon launches with first-of-its-kind test instrument

October 1, 2013

Over the Moon: LASP instrument launches Sept. 6

August 29, 2013

MAVEN haiku selected for travel to Mars

August 8, 2013

MAVEN arrives in Florida for launch preparations

August 5, 2013

LASP instrument reveals a particle accelerator in near-Earth space

July 25, 2013

Public voting opens on MAVEN haiku contest

July 14, 2013

LASP-built space weather instrument ready for delivery

May 2, 2013

Kepler spacecraft discovers smallest “habitable zone” planets to date

April 18, 2013

PRESS RELEASE: LASP will partner on NASA mission to study Earth’s upper atmosphere

April 12, 2013

LASP instrument discovers a third radiation belt around Earth

February 27, 2013

Ready to rattle: MAVEN spacecraft begins environmental testing

February 8, 2013

Sun-studying satellite celebrates a successful decade

January 22, 2013

MESSENGER finds polar ice on Mercury

November 29, 2012

PRESS RELEASE: $20 million LASP-built instrumentation delivered for integration on Mars spacecraft

November 16, 2012

LASP competes for prestigious workforce award

October 26, 2012

LASP-operated spacecraft discovers rare four-star planet

October 18, 2012

PRESS RELEASE: Tiny student-built satellite launches to study violent solar activity

August 1, 2012

LASP to operate private mission to map hazardous asteroids

June 28, 2012

LASP sounding rocket launch planned for Saturday

June 22, 2012

Kepler mission extended through 2016

April 4, 2012

Cassini team wins top Smithsonian group honor

March 29, 2012

Student-built satellite delivered to California for upcoming launch

January 23, 2012

As Voyager 1 nears edge of Solar System, CU scientists look back

December 13, 2011

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