Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
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The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is a research organization at the University of Colorado at Boulder. It was originally called the Upper Air Laboratory, but changed to its current name in 1965.
LASP has two facilities: offices on the main CU-Boulder campus, and the “Space Technology Building” in the University’s research park.
LASP’s new facilities allow it to handle almost every aspect of space missions, itself. Hardware facilities allow for the construction of single instruments or entire spacecraft. A mission operations center allows for the control of spacecraft data collection, and a large research staff analyzes the data.
Being part of the University, LASP has heavy student involvement in every aspect of its operations, including hardware design/construction and mission operations.
LASP supports the following spacecraft and instruments:
- Galileo ultraviolet spectrometer
- Cassini-Huygens Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS)
- Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) Solar/Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment (SOLSTICE)
- Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE)
- Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)
- Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)
- Quick Scatterometer Mission (QuikSCAT)
- TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics)
- New Horizons Student Dust Counter (SDC)
LASP is involved in the following upcoming missions:
