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)
• TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics)

LASP is involved in the following upcoming missions:

• Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM)

See also

• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

External link

• LASP official website