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The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is a research organization at the University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Colorado at Boulder

The University of Colorado at Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado. Considered a Public Ivy, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the union in 1876....
. LASP is a world-class research institute with advanced technical capabilities specializing in designing, building, and operating spacecraft and spacecraft instruments. Founded after World War II, the first scientific instruments built at LASP were launched into space using captured German V-2 rockets.






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The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is a research organization at the University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Colorado at Boulder

The University of Colorado at Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado. Considered a Public Ivy, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the union in 1876....
. LASP is a world-class research institute with advanced technical capabilities specializing in designing, building, and operating spacecraft and spacecraft instruments. Founded after World War II, the first scientific instruments built at LASP were launched into space using captured German V-2 rockets. To this day LASP continues a suborbital rocket program through periodic calibration instrument flights from White Sands Missile Range. It was originally called the Upper Air Laboratory, but changed to its current name in 1965. LASP has historical ties to Ball Aerospace Corporation and the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA).

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
Spacecraft

A spacecraft is a Craft or machine designed for spaceflight. On a sub-orbital spaceflight, a spacecraft enters outer space then returns to the Earth....
. 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
    Cassini-Huygens

    Cassini?Huygens is a joint NASA/European Space Agency robotic spacecraft mission currently studying the planet Saturn and Saturn's natural satellites....
     Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS)
  • Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
    Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

    The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is an orbital observatory whose mission is to study the Earth?s atmosphere, particularly the protective ozone layer....
     (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

    ICESat , part of NASA's Earth Observing System, is a satellite mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics....
     (ICESat)
  • Quick Scatterometer Mission (QuikSCAT)
  • TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) Solar EUV Experiment (SEE)
  • New Horizons
    New Horizons

    New Horizons is a NASA robotic spacecraft mission currently en route to the dwarf planet Pluto. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study Pluto and its moons, Charon , Nix , and Hydra ....
     Student Dust Counter (SDC)
  • Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere
    Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere

    Atmospheric physics of Ice in the Mesosphere is a NASA-funded satellite being used to conduct a 26-month study of noctilucent clouds . On April 25, 2007 AIM was boosted into a 600 km high polar orbit by a Pegasus rocket, which was air-launched from a Lockheed L-1011 aircraft....
     (AIM)


LASP is involved in the following upcoming missions:
  • Solar Dynamics Observatory
    Solar Dynamics Observatory

    The Solar Dynamics Observatory is a NASA mission under the Living With a Star program. The goal of the LWS program is to develop the scientific understanding necessary to effectively address those aspects of the connected Sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society....
     (SDO) EUV Variability Experiment (EVE)
  • Kepler Space Observatory
  • GOES-R
    Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

    The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program is a key element in United States' National Weather Service operations. GOES weather imagery and quantitative sounding data are a continuous and reliable stream of natural environment information used to support weather forecasting, severe storm tracking, and meteorological res...
     Extreme Ultra Violet and X-Ray Irradiance Sensors
  • MAVEN


See also

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research
    National Center for Atmospheric Research

    The National Center for Atmospheric Research is a non-governmental United States-based institute whose stated mission is "exploring and understanding our atmosphere and its interactions with the Sun, the oceans, the biosphere, and human society."...
     (NCAR)
  • IDL (programming language)

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