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Dozens of LASP employees, family members, and friends attended the launch of NASA’s flagship Europa Clipper mission, which includes the Europa SUrface Dust Analyzer (SUDA), a unique instrument built at the lab on CU Â鶹ӰԺ’s East Campus.

Ten years after arriving at Mars, MAVEN has completed more than 22,000 orbits, revealing amazing discoveries on its mission to determine how the Red Planet's climate evolved from warm and wet to the cold, dry planet that we see today.

Specialized optical equipment will gather data from astronauts’ eyes and analyze the results during and after the five-day Polaris Dawn mission. The research is a collaboration between Allie Hayman (Aerospace Engineering) and Prem Subramania (CU School of Medicine).

Nick Kruczek, an instrument engineer in the solar and stellar science division at the Laboratory for Atmospheric Space Physics, has been named a NASA Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellow. The award recognizes early career researchers with innovative ideas to advance astrophysics flight programs and technology.

Bolstering its longstanding collaboration with NASA, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Â鶹ӰԺ today enacted a collaborative Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The agreement will advance research and modeling in the critical field of space weather.

To learn more about how dust particles may affect future missions, NASA has awarded $1M to a team from CU Â鶹ӰԺ's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) to develop a dust analyzer capable of measuring the speed, size and charge of tiny dust particles on rocky bodies less than 5 kilometers across.

Assistant Professor Sean Peters (Aerospace Engineering) is leading a major multi-institutional initiative to create a drone-based, power-efficient passive radar system to map subsurface areas of Mars. The initiative was recently funded by a $2.45 million, three-year NASA grant.

The Kennedy Space Center launch of NOAA’s GOES-U satellite—carrying the fourth and final Extreme Ultraviolet and X-Ray Irradiance Sensors (EXIS) instrument—was a high point in the two-decade long program on which dozens of LASP employees worked for the majority of their careers.

When a solar flare leaps out from around the sun, a small fleet of scientific instruments designed and built at CU Â鶹ӰԺ form a first line of defense—spotting these massive eruptions before any other instrument in space, then relaying the information to Earth in seconds.

CU Â鶹ӰԺ's Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences is partnering with the Â鶹ӰԺ Emergency Squad to evaluate the use of AI-enabled drones in search and rescue operations, which can independently help teams scout locations or find individuals.