Featured Projects
COSI
COSI is a wide field of view gamma-ray telescope that obtains high spectral resolution from 0.2 to 5 MeV, enabling sensitive narrow line imaging of the entire Galaxy.
ESCAPADE
NASA ESCAPADE is the first UC Berkeley-led planetary mission. Its two identical satellites, Blue and Gold, will provide an unprecedented stereo view of Mars magnetosphere.…
Psyche
Psyche is both the name of an asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter — and the name of a NASA space mission to…
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will image Earth’s exosphere. The exosphere is the outermost layer of the atmosphere, and the geocorona is the light that emanates…
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NCT
The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) was a balloon-borne Compton telescope to observe the gamma-ray sky in the energy range from a few hundred keV to several MeV. Its main goals are to improve the understanding of Galactic nucleosynthesis, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, black holes, and more.
NuSTAR
NuSTAR is a space-based X-ray telescope that uses a Wolter telescope design to focus high energy X-rays from astrophysical sources. SSL built the instrument optics benches and the extendable mast that separates the optics from…
OGO 1,3&5
The Orbiting Geophysical Observatories (OGO) missions were put into orbit by NASA between 1964 and 1969. They were intended to study the Earth’s atmosphere, magnetosphere, and the space between the Earth and Moon.
OPAL
The Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program—is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging program that maps the four giant planets every year. The program cements the long-term legacy of HST by ensuring a regular cadence…
OSIRIS-REx
OSIRIS-REx seeks answers to the questions that are central to the human experience: Where did we come from? What is our destiny? Asteroids, the leftover debris from the solar system formation process, can answer these…
PADRE
The solar PolArization and Directivity X-Ray Experiment (PADRE) is NASA cubesat mission to study and dicepher the secrets of the Sun. The mission is a collaboration between the Space Sciences Laboratory – University of California…
PENGUIn
The Polar Experiment Network for Geospace Upper-atmosphere Investigations (PENGUIn) project involved measuring LF/MF/HF signals at ground level from remote sites in Antarctica. The primary scientific goal is to characterize natural emissions from the Earth’s aurora.…
Planck
Planck was ESA’s mission to observe the first light in the Universe. Planck was selected in 1995 as the third Medium-Sized Mission (M3) of ESA’s Horizon 2000 Scientific Programme, and later became part of its…
PolarBear Telescope
POLARBEAR is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment situated on the 3.5-meter diameter Huan Tran Telescope at the James Ax Observatory located at Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. It is designed to…
PSP/FIELDS
Surveyor of the invisible forces, the FIELDS instrument suite on Parker Solar Probe captures the scale and shape of electric and magnetic fields in the Sun’s atmosphere. FIELDS measures waves and turbulence in the inner…