
This image shows the Solar Radiation & Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite in a clean room before its launch. LASP provides multiple instruments and Mission Operations for SORCE, which measures the Sun’s output. (Courtesy NASA)
As a full-cycle space institute, LASP supports space missions and projects through our collective expertise in all aspects of space exploration, including science, engineering, mission operations, data analysis, and education. LASP may contribute one or more of the following to any given mission:
- Science: LASP scientists develop focus areas for space and aircraft missions, and define the technology needed to collect data.
- Engineering: Our in-house engineering facilities support the design and manufacture of space-based and suborbital instruments and spacecraft.
- Mission Operations & Data Systems: LASP manages day-to-day mission and science operations for spacecraft and instruments after launch, and delivers scientific data to scientists and the public.
- Student involvement: As the next generation of space scientists, engineers, and mission operators, CU-Boulder students are integrated into LASP working teams at all levels of the exploration process.
LASP collaborates regularly with many federal and private space organizations to bring space missions and projects, such as those listed below, into fruition. Our frequent partners include NASA, NSF, Lockheed Martin, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., and numerous private and public universities across the country.
Alphabetical list of LASP missions
- Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM)
- Atmosphere Explorer C (AE-C)
- Atmosphere Explorer D (AE-D)
- Cassini UltraViolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS)
- Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Pathfinder
- Collisions Into Dust Experiment 2 (COLLIDE-2)
- Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment (CSSWE)
- Europa Surface Dust mass Analyzer (SUDA)
- The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)
- Galileo Ultraviolet Spectrometer/Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer Experiment (UVS/EUV)
- Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R Series Program (GOES-R)
- Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD)
- Glory
- HyperSpectral Imaging for Climate Science (HySICS)
- Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)
- Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)
- Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)
- Kepler/K2
- Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)
- Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS)
- Mariner 5
- Mariner 6 & 7
- Mariner 9
- Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN)
- Mars 96
- Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM)
- Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MESSENGER MASCS)
- The Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS)
- New Horizons Student Dust Counter (SDC)
- Orbiting Solar Observatory-5 (OSO-5)
- Orbiting Solar Observatory-8 (OSO-8)
- Parker Solar Probe (PSP)
- Pioneer Venus
- Polar Toroidal Imaging Mass-Angle Spectrograph (TIMAS)
- Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT)
- Solar Dynamics Observatory/EUV Variability Experiment (SDO/EVE)
- Solar Mesosphere Explorer (SME)
- Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)
- Space Technology Research Vehicle (STRV)
- Spartan Halley
- Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE)
- Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms (THEMIS)
- Total Solar Irradiance Calibration Transfer Experiment (TCTE)
- Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1)
- TIMED Solar EUV Experiment (SEE)
- Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite – Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment (UARS / SOLSTICE)
- Van Allen Probes
- Voyager 1 & 2