Since 1959, The UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) has led the way in designing, building and operating high-return, low-cost NASA missions. SSL consists of some 260 highly trained and specialized engineers, scientists, and support staff working together in an integrated model that is unique for its 70 years of success.
SSL is one of only two university-based institutions in the U.S. capable of executing the full NASA mission lifecycle. We provide engineering expertise for a range of space and ground-based projects Our mission operations capabilities include a newly refurbished, all-digital mission operations center, and our state-of-the-art facilities support cleanroom fabrication and assembly, along with environmental testing.
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory launched this morning. Carruthers is now traveling toward the Sun, around which it will enter solar orbit almost a million miles away from Earth and focus on Earth’s exosphere.
NASA’s PADRE mission will measure hard X-rays emitted during solar flares. It is poised to unlock the secrets of solar flares at a fraction of the cost of previous missions.
Hundreds gathered at the Grimes Engineering Center on Friday for the Berkeley Space Symposium organized by the Berkeley undergraduate group NewSpace@Berkeley. The UC Berkeley Space
Lindy Elkins-Tanton, a geologist and planetary scientist, will be the new director of UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, effective July 1. She currently leads the NASA Psyche mission to explore an asteroid called Psyche.