Lin Fellows Seminar
The three 2022 Lin Fellows gave talks on their research on Friday, October 21. Orlando Romeo spoke about, “Electron Distribution Evolution near the Sun Observed by Parker Solar Probe.” Aidi Zhang spoke about, “Studying the gravity signature of the Great Red Spot with a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model.” And Christian Bye’s talk was entitled, “Observing the […]
OTD, October 10, 2019 ICON was launched to Study the Ionoshphere
#OTD 3 years ago, we launched the Ionospheric Connection Explorer! The mission studies an area where Earth’s weather meets space weather. Changes in this dynamic region — known as the ionosphere — can disrupt our radio communications and GPS signals. Read more about ICON
21-cm Cosmology Workshop Sponsored by SSL to be Held on Oct-17-20, 2022
SSL is sponsoring and organizing the 5th edition of the Global 21-cm Cosmology Workshop, which will be held on Oct 17-20, 2022 at the Lawrence Hall of Science. The organizing committee is led by senior fellow Raul Monsalve, and includes Stuart Bale, Ilia Roussev, Lissvett Garcia Fields, and Jensine Irasusta, as well as members of […]
SSL’s ASSURE 2022 REU program wraps up with sunny poster session
Advancing Space Sciences through Undergraduate Research Experience (ASSURE) is SSL’s NSF-funded REU program which aims to provide authentic cutting edge research experiences in the space sciences to early stage undergraduates. In particular ASSURE primarily serves California community college students, especially those from under-represented groups, first-generation college students and those for whom obtaining a research experience […]
OTD, August 12, 2018, Parker Solar Probe launched on a ground breaking mission to study the Sun
In the early morning hours of August 12th a Delta IV Heavy Rockets three engines roared to life lifting the Parker Solar Probe into the night sky and started its journey on a mission to study the sun. Parker Solar Probe has been setting records throughout its mission, from fastest spacecraft to closest approach to […]
SSL Community Mourns Astronomer Garrett Jernigan
Astronomer Jesse Garrett Jernigan, Jr., known to all as Garrett, passed away unexpectedly on May 9, 2022 in Petaluma, California. He was 71. Jernigan’s work in high energy astrophysics and related instrumentation led to noteworthy discoveries involving cataclysmic variables, X-ray and gamma ray burst sources, quasars and pulsars. After moving to California in 1981, Jernigan […]
Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros featured in Science@Cal lecture series
“Why study the universe?” begins SSL solar physicist Dr. Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros. “I would rather ask myself, ‘Why not study the universe?’ We are all children of the stars—all our essential components come from stars, from their explosions.” For the third year in a row, the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco has […]
NASA’s NuSTAR Mission Celebrates 10 Years Studying the X-Ray Universe
After a decade of observing some of the hottest, densest, and most energetic regions in our universe, this small but powerful space telescope still has more to see. NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is turning 10. Launched on June 13, 2012, this space telescope detects high-energy X-ray light and studies some of the most energetic […]
Students take EOA on a Zero-G flight
On May 10, SSL’s EOA (Enceladus Organic Analyzer) group flew their “lab-on-a-chip” on a Zero-G flight in Florida. Check out the Berkeley News story, “Berkeley students flip, float and experiment on zero gravity flight.“
Psyche asteroid explorer arrives at Kennedy Space Center for launch preps
The High Voltage Power Supplies for the GRS and NS Instruments on the Psyche spacecraft were designed and built at SSL A U.S. military cargo plane delivered NASA’s Psyche spacecraft from California to the Kennedy Space Center last week, starting a three-month campaign to ready the asteroid explorer for liftoff on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy […]
