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541 assets from 19 organizations
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Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
One of five LASP ambient pressure thermal chambers, used for small instrument and subsystem thermal tests, component bake-outs and curing of polymerics; Giant White is 32 x 30 x 36 in, covers 200C to -73C, and has humidity control, cable…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
LASP's largest thermal vacuum chamber, used for thermal vacuum, thermal balance and optical testing of spacecraft and large instruments; 120.6 in inner diameter by 155.9 in depth, five thermal zones, 100C to -170C, capable of 10e-8 Torr,…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Intellectual Property
PCT application for an apparatus that charges solid particles with an electron beam and deflects them with an electric field in a sorting corridor to separate them by size, with a second pass sorting same-size particles by surface…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP heliophysics and astrophysics research: precise instruments for NASA and NOAA that measure the Sun's light, modeling of solar processes from core to corona and solar variability, the LISIRD solar irradiance archive, and exoplanet…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
One of four LASP bake-out tanks (vacuum ovens) used to verify cleanliness of instruments, subsystems and ground support equipment with residual gas analyzers; BOT-II is 26.75 in diameter by 33.13 in deep, has a shroud, a 150C maximum…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP business development team builds partnerships with universities and the private sector to form competitive teams for government and industry space missions, projects and programs; contact partnerships@lasp.colorado.edu.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Cloud Imaging and Particle Size Experiment, a four-camera panoramic imager on AIM that measures ultraviolet radiation scattered by polar mesospheric clouds and atmospheric gases to determine cloud occurrence, brightness and particle size,…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Composite time series of daily full-disk integrated solar irradiance at 121–122 nm (dominated by H I 121.6 nm) from multiple instruments and models, scaled to SORCE SOLSTICE reference levels at 1 AU; version 4, 1947 to present.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
Dusty plasma research at LASP's IMPACT institute (a SSERVI member), covering charged dust in space and laboratory plasmas, dust acoustic waves and plasma instabilities, through laboratory investigations, rocket experiments and spacecraft…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP studies Earth's atmosphere and climate from space (about a third of its research portfolio), from the troposphere to the thermosphere, using space instruments, rockets, aircraft campaigns, balloons and models; topics include radiation…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Emirates Mars Ultraviolet Spectrometer, a far ultraviolet spectrometer jointly developed by LASP and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) to determine the abundance and variability of carbon monoxide and oxygen in the Martian…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment on SDO, which measures the solar EUV irradiance spectrum (0.1 nm resolution, 20 s cadence, 25% accuracy requirement) with grating spectrographs and array detectors plus on-board calibration…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk ultraviolet imaging spectrograph, which images Earth’s disk every half hour to map temperature and composition in the sunlit thermosphere and electron density in the nighttime ionosphere,…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP Senior Research Scientist and solar physicist; science team member on CTIM (next-generation total solar irradiance monitoring); 2021 Jack E. Cermak Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Interstellar Dust Experiment on IMAP, a time-of-flight dust impact ionization mass spectrometer that measures the elemental composition, speed and mass distributions of interstellar and interplanetary dust particles.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
IMPACT laboratory housing a 3 MV linear electrostatic dust accelerator (Pelletron) that launches micron and submicron particles to velocities approaching 100 km/s for impact research and calibration of space dust instruments; the lab…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP develops custom instrument and detector technology for remote sensing and in-situ sampling: low-noise and intensified CCD imagers, dust and particle detectors, field DSP electronics, stable silicon photodiodes, an electrometer ASIC…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
The Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph on the MAVEN spacecraft measures global characteristics of the Mars upper atmosphere and ionosphere by remote sensing, including major molecules, atoms, ions and isotopes, exobase and ionosphere…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP tenure-track faculty member researching exoplanets and their host stars, protoplanetary disks and ultraviolet astrophysics instrumentation; PI of the CUTE SmallSat and the ESCAPE mission concept, HWO CSIT member, sounding-rocket PI…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP Calibration and Testing ("Cal Group") engineers recommend instrument architectures and select detectors and optics, then verify assembled instruments through component testing, shake testing, bake-out and exhaustive performance…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP runs day-to-day operations for dozens of NASA spacecraft and instruments from several in-house mission operations centers, using mission-tailored command-and-control software and 40+ years of operations experience; it also trains and…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP data systems experts design software to create and manage mission science data centers, the community portals for mission data products and tools; LASP manages the science data centers for AIM, MAVEN, MMS and the upcoming IMAP mission.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
Full-cycle SmallSat development from CubeSats to ESPA-class spacecraft: mission and systems engineering, custom instruments and payloads, AI&T with environmental testing (thermal, vibration, EMI/EMC), cleanroom integration, flight…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
ISO Class 7 cleanroom space for assembly, integration and test (AI&T) of spaceflight hardware for external customers, with humidity and temperature control, ESD floors, ISO Class 5 flow benches, overhead cranes, and clean nitrogen purge;…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
Web inquiry form for external projects seeking LASP engineering test facilities (thermal vacuum, bake-out tanks, ambient pressure chambers, cleanroom space, other), asking for contact details, test type and start time-frame; an engineer…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
Production and fabrication services for precision aerospace hardware to NASA standards, covering parts fabrication, precision cleaning, electrical and mechanical assembly, polymerics and painting, and metrology verification, delivered in…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Component-based, model-driven framework for building reliable, reusable embedded real-time software, first developed for spacecraft flight software at LASP; models in a YAML-based DSL generate structural code, documentation, unit test…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Python module to read and write NASA Common Data Format (.cdf) files without installing the NASA CDF library; the core uses only numpy and needs Python 3.9 or later.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Python library for SPICE extensions and geospatial data product generation: wrappers for SPICE routines, automated SPICE kernel creation from JSON definition files, and Level-1 geospatial processing such as geolocation.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Python routines for IUVS science: tools for reading and manipulating IUVS data, standardized projections of IUVS data, and integration with spiceyPy; installable from a clone with pip.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Astrodynamics simulation framework with installation guides for macOS, Linux and Windows, tutorial scenarios (starting with scenarioBasicOrbit.py), support for custom modules, and an optional Vizard 3D visualization.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Middleware and software library that implements the LaTiS Functional Data Model to describe and manipulate scientific datasets in a common way, with extensible readers and writers, relational-algebra operations, and a standards-based web…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
NASA Libera radiometer instrument, four co-aligned electrical substitution radiometers with carbon-nanotube absorbers on elevation and azimuth scan mechanisms, to monitor Earth’s radiative energy budget and continue the CERES data record;…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP lunar science, including Electron Beam Dust Mitigation (EBDM), first demonstrated at the IMPACT lab, which uses an electron beam to charge and repel dust from surfaces; a TRL 5 prototype exists and the method can clean lunar rocks for…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP research on the magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn: solar wind interaction, Io and Enceladus plasma sources, auroral emissions, and comparison of models with Cassini and Juno particle data.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Intellectual Property
Granted US patent on cleaning dust from a substrate by irradiating the dust layer with an electron beam, so that secondary electrons charge neighboring particles and the resulting electrostatic repulsion ejects them from the surface;…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP Research Scientist in solar physics and aeronomy (spectroscopy, remote sensing, scientific instrumentation); Co-Investigator on DUSTER (lunar dust and plasma environment) and Institutional PI on SunCET.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP studies the atmospheres of every planet in the solar system and some exoplanets, including Mars atmospheric evolution with MAVEN, global climate models for Mars and Titan, the early Earth atmosphere, Cassini observations of Titan and…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP tenure-track faculty member working on cosmic dust: dust-plasma interactions, formation and composition of dust, planetary ring dynamics, in-situ dust observation, impact plasmas, laboratory hypervelocity impact experiments, space…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Daily average total solar irradiance (TSI) measured by the LASP Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) aboard the SORCE spacecraft since early 2003; absolute accuracy about 350 ppm, with relative changes measured to less than 10 ppm/yr.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP space weather expertise: instruments that measure the Sun's energy output (ultraviolet, electric field and energetic particle instruments, from Mariner 6 to GOLD), the AETHER instrument for NASA's Geospace Dynamics Constellation, and…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Python package for decoding CCSDS telemetry packets according to an XTCE packet structure definition, based on the UML model of the XTCE specification; installable from PyPI or the lasp Anaconda channel, with an optional spp CLI.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
Program that certifies CU Boulder undergraduates as mission operators after a summer-long course; student operators work under professional staff to operate NASA spacecraft, and about 20 students are selected each spring.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Europa SUrface Dust Analyzer, a LASP-built instrument on NASA's Europa Clipper that measures the composition of dust around Europa to map organic and inorganic, major and trace compounds and link them to their surface origin.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Total Irradiance Monitor, which measures total solar irradiance (the spatially and spectrally integrated solar radiation at the top of Earth’s atmosphere) with an ambient-temperature active cavity radiometer, continuing the solar climate…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Daily averages of full-disk solar ultraviolet irradiance from the Solar EUV Experiment (SEE) on the NASA TIMED mission, in 1 nm bins from 0.5 to 194.5 nm, with uncertainties included; this level is filtered to remove flares (Level 3a…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Version 2 of the TSIS-1 Hybrid Solar Reference Spectrum, a solar-minimum (cycles 24/25) reference spectrum from 202 to 2730 nm built by normalizing high-resolution solar line data to the TSIS-1 SIM and CSIM irradiance scale; the original…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Daily average solar spectral irradiance (SSI) from the LASP TSIS-1 Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SIM) on the International Space Station since March 2018, covering 200–2400 nm at about 1–35 nm resolution, with absolute accuracy under 0.4%.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP Web Services team builds websites, portals, tools and underlying technologies for space missions, from converting raw instrument data to calibrated products and delivery portals to telemetry plotting software for mission operators.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Browser-based, multi-mission tool (Web-based Telemetry, Checking, Analysis, and Display) for ad-hoc visualization and analysis of spacecraft and instrument telemetry, including searching, filtering, plotting, limit checking and trending,…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Solar irradiance reference spectra for the 2008 Whole Heliosphere Interval (Carrington Rotation 2068), at 0.1 nm intervals, for three periods (moderately low activity with sunspot blocking, with faculae brightening, and a quiet-Sun…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
X-ray Ultraviolet Photometer System, one of four solar irradiance experiments on SORCE, continuing solar XUV irradiance measurements from earlier versions flown on SNOE and TIMED with improved accuracy.