Meetings/News
Good-bye SORCE, Hello TSIS !
The NASA Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) science mission ended on February 25, 2020 after completing more than 17 years of excellent observations of the total solar irradiance (TSI) and spectral solar irradiance (SSI) between 1 nm and 2400 nm. This was a planned passivation event for SORCE now that the new NASA Total […]
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TCTE Mission Ends
As planned, the Total Solar Irradiance Calibration Transfer Experiment (TCTE) science mission ended on June 30, 2019. TCTE was built and operated by CU/LASP for NOAA under a NASA contract. TCTE launched aboard the U.S. Air Force Space Test Program Satellite-3 (STPSat-3) on Nov. 19, 2013 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. To achieve the levels […]
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SORCE Operations Extended to January 2020
Great news for the SORCE mission! After a Key Decision Point (KDP) Meeting regarding SORCE’s Phase F, NASA Headquarters has decided to extend SORCE operations into January 2020. SORCE has had battery issues for years and had some communication outages in April 2019. This later anomaly triggered NASA HQ to accelerate the SORCE decommissioning planning […]
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SORCE Reaches 6000 Days in Orbit!
The SORCE team hosted an Ice Cream Social at LASP to celebrate that SORCE has been in orbit for 6000 days at the end of June 2019! To recognize this milestone attendees topped their ice cream sundaes with 6000 M&Ms, which included some fun custom M&Ms (see photo). SORCE launched on Jan. 25, 2003 and […]
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SORCE Celebrates 15 Years!
We are thrilled to be celebrating the 15-year anniversary of the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment. On January 25, 2003, the spacecraft was delivered into low Earth orbit on a Pegasus XL launch vehicle. This NASA satellite is carrying four instruments developed and built by LASP – TIM, SIM, SOLSTICE, and XPS. The primary objective […]
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