LASP provided instrumentation for the Mariner 5 spacecraft, shown here during its launch on June 14, 1967. (Courtesy NASA)
LASP has contributed to space missions since the 1960s, as the list below attests. Our mission involvement has included scientific oversight, instrument design and development, spacecraft operations, and data management. For some missions, LASP’s role has involved all of these areas.
CU-Boulder students have been integral to our success from the beginning.
Alphabetical list of past LASP missions
- Atmosphere Explorer C (AE-C)
- Atmosphere Explorer D (AE-D)
- Cassini UltraViolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS)
- Collisions Into Dust Experiment 2 (COLLIDE-2)
- Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment (CSSWE)
- Galileo Ultraviolet Spectrometer/Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer Experiment (UVS/EUV)
- Glory
- HyperSpectral Imaging for Climate Science (HySICS)
- Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)
- Kepler/K2
- Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)
- Mariner 5
- Mariner 6 & 7
- Mariner 9
- Mars 96
- Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM)
- Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MESSENGER MASCS)
- The Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS)
- Orbiting Solar Observatory-5 (OSO-5)
- Orbiting Solar Observatory-8 (OSO-8)
- Pioneer Venus
- Polar Toroidal Imaging Mass-Angle Spectrograph (TIMAS)
- Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT)
- Solar Mesosphere Explorer (SME)
- Space Technology Research Vehicle (STRV)
- Spartan Halley
- Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE)
- Total Solar Irradiance Calibration Transfer Experiment (TCTE)
- Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite – Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment (UARS / SOLSTICE)
- Voyager 1 & 2