Lab News
LOOK: SSL undergrad interns promote the lab at Cal Day
Our undergraduate interns talked up SSL’s opportunities with visiting students and parents at Cal Day on Saturday, April 18th. According to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, 3389 students virtually checked in to attend Cal Day, and 11,544 total attendees were recorded. 279 admitted students accepted their offer to attend Cal on site (including an 320 students…
Read MoreBruce Grossan, SSL and LBNL scientist, dies at 63
Dr. Bruce Grossan passed away unexpectedly on February 10, 2026, at the age of 63.
Read MoreESCAPADE sends a selfie
Commissioning of NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft is proceeding smoothly. ESCAPADE snapped this selfie in visible and infrared light.
Read MoreNASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars — twin UC Berkeley satellites dubbed Blue and Gold — launched today
After two launch delays because of weather and a solar storm, New Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral at 3:55 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 13. The twin satellites successfully separated from the rocket about 33 minutes after launch.
Read MorePsyche talk embodies spirit of Center for Integrative Planetary Science lecture series
On October 15, Lindy Elkins-Tanton gave a talk on NASA’s Psyche mission as part of a Center for Integrative Planetary Science seminar series.
Read MoreNASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will study Earth’s exosphere
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.
Read MoreLOOK: Space symposium draws hundreds in academia, industry and government
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 Sciences Laboratory (SSL) sponsored the event, and SSL engineers, flight controllers and faculty were in attendance aiming to inspire the next generation. The event kicked off with speed mentoring sessions…
Read MorePlanetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton to head Space Sciences Laboratory
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.
Read MoreLOOK: SSL Cal Day table inspires out-of-this-world selfies
Our amazing undergraduate interns staffed SSL’s table at Cal Day on Saturday, April 19th. They talked up SSL’s undergraduate opportunities with admitted students and parents who posed for selfies with our out-of-this-world photo accessories. If visitors could point out a specific instrument on our ESCAPADE Lego model, they’d win an ESCAPADE sticker and Pegasus rocket…
Read MoreAuroral Acceleration Symposium aims to inspire next generation of space scientists
Symposium in honor of Chuck Carlson encourages new research on data from legacy auroral missions The Auroral Acceleration Symposium in Honor of Charles W. (Chuck) Carlson wrapped up on Thursday, April 10th. The event held at UC Berkeley’s Faculty Club attracted some 65 participants and included 24 talks on topics focusing on satellite and rocket…
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