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Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

The SPRITE program officially begins!

June 1, 2019

The SPRITE CubeSat is a NASA-funded mission led by the University of Colorado that is designed to study how gas and dust is processed in galaxies by star-formation and supernovae, and how energetic ionizing radiation is transported from hot stars into the intergalactic medium between galaxies.