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The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder is at the forefront of space weather and climate monitoring, solar and planetary research, and the search for evidence of habitable worlds.
Happy Halloween from LASP!
Usually, we use our Science On a Sphere to learn more about our terrific world, but today? Today, it's for celebrating the spookiest of holidays.
Usually, we use our Science On a Sphere to learn more about our terrific world, but today? Today, it's for celebrating the spookiest of holidays.
October 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Happy Halloween from LASP!
Usually, we use our Science On a Sphere to learn more about our terrific world, but today? Today, it's for celebrating the spookiest of holidays.
Usually, we use our Science On a Sphere to learn more about our terrific world, but today? Today, it's for celebrating the spookiest of holidays.
🌕 🔭 Please join us at our International Observe the Moon Night event, tomorrow, Saturday 10/4 from 6:30-9pm on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall.
View the moon through our high power telescope while talking with scientists about lunar science and LASP's recent and upcoming missions.
#observethemoon
View the moon through our high power telescope while talking with scientists about lunar science and LASP's recent and upcoming missions.
#observethemoon
October 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🌕 🔭 Please join us at our International Observe the Moon Night event, tomorrow, Saturday 10/4 from 6:30-9pm on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall.
View the moon through our high power telescope while talking with scientists about lunar science and LASP's recent and upcoming missions.
#observethemoon
View the moon through our high power telescope while talking with scientists about lunar science and LASP's recent and upcoming missions.
#observethemoon
🚀 We hope to see you in Sydney for #IAC2025!
LASP is dedicated to science-led, mission-driven innovation: from SmallSats to global partnerships like INSPIRE. We don't just build hardware — we partner, train, and inspire. Visit Booth 118 to explore collaboration and advance space science together.
LASP is dedicated to science-led, mission-driven innovation: from SmallSats to global partnerships like INSPIRE. We don't just build hardware — we partner, train, and inspire. Visit Booth 118 to explore collaboration and advance space science together.
September 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚀 We hope to see you in Sydney for #IAC2025!
LASP is dedicated to science-led, mission-driven innovation: from SmallSats to global partnerships like INSPIRE. We don't just build hardware — we partner, train, and inspire. Visit Booth 118 to explore collaboration and advance space science together.
LASP is dedicated to science-led, mission-driven innovation: from SmallSats to global partnerships like INSPIRE. We don't just build hardware — we partner, train, and inspire. Visit Booth 118 to explore collaboration and advance space science together.
🚀 IMAP has launched! When it reaches its orbit 1 million miles from Earth, IMAP will study the Sun, including the LASP-built IDEX instrument that will study interstellar dust. Huge thanks to our partners and the LASP mission team. No one gets to space alone. Congrats, IMAP team! 📸 NASA/LASP
September 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🚀 IMAP has launched! When it reaches its orbit 1 million miles from Earth, IMAP will study the Sun, including the LASP-built IDEX instrument that will study interstellar dust. Huge thanks to our partners and the LASP mission team. No one gets to space alone. Congrats, IMAP team! 📸 NASA/LASP
Happy National Postdoc Appreciation Week! 🧑🎓 🔭 🥳
LASP loves our postdocs! At our lab, they do everything from designing small satellites to building space instruments and analyzing data from other planets.
#nationalpostdocappreciationweek
LASP loves our postdocs! At our lab, they do everything from designing small satellites to building space instruments and analyzing data from other planets.
#nationalpostdocappreciationweek
September 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Happy National Postdoc Appreciation Week! 🧑🎓 🔭 🥳
LASP loves our postdocs! At our lab, they do everything from designing small satellites to building space instruments and analyzing data from other planets.
#nationalpostdocappreciationweek
LASP loves our postdocs! At our lab, they do everything from designing small satellites to building space instruments and analyzing data from other planets.
#nationalpostdocappreciationweek
Are you joining us in Fairbanks this week for the 2025 Sun-Earth Symposium? 🌞 🌍 🐻
We're excited to see our partners across the solar science world this week to dive deep into the latest and greatest research, technology, and missions!
We're excited to see our partners across the solar science world this week to dive deep into the latest and greatest research, technology, and missions!
September 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Are you joining us in Fairbanks this week for the 2025 Sun-Earth Symposium? 🌞 🌍 🐻
We're excited to see our partners across the solar science world this week to dive deep into the latest and greatest research, technology, and missions!
We're excited to see our partners across the solar science world this week to dive deep into the latest and greatest research, technology, and missions!
Dr. Bethany Ehlmann is a Buff!
Dr. Ehlmann has started as LASP’s Director. In addition to leading us, she holds faculty roles in the Research and Innovation Office, the Department of Geological Sciences, and the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences. lasp.colorado.edu/people/betha...
Dr. Ehlmann has started as LASP’s Director. In addition to leading us, she holds faculty roles in the Research and Innovation Office, the Department of Geological Sciences, and the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences. lasp.colorado.edu/people/betha...
September 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Dr. Bethany Ehlmann is a Buff!
Dr. Ehlmann has started as LASP’s Director. In addition to leading us, she holds faculty roles in the Research and Innovation Office, the Department of Geological Sciences, and the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences. lasp.colorado.edu/people/betha...
Dr. Ehlmann has started as LASP’s Director. In addition to leading us, she holds faculty roles in the Research and Innovation Office, the Department of Geological Sciences, and the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences. lasp.colorado.edu/people/betha...
Happy back to school! Here's the thing about LASPians, we've been about space since day one. #backtoschool
August 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Happy back to school! Here's the thing about LASPians, we've been about space since day one. #backtoschool
Guess who turns 48 today!
Voyager 2 launched August 20, 1977, starting our (long) journey to interstellar space! LASP contributed the Photopolarimeter Subsystem on both Voyager missions, which studied Jupiter, Saturn, and the Rings of Saturn.
#Voyager2 #NASA
lasp.colorado.edu/missions/voy...
Voyager 2 launched August 20, 1977, starting our (long) journey to interstellar space! LASP contributed the Photopolarimeter Subsystem on both Voyager missions, which studied Jupiter, Saturn, and the Rings of Saturn.
#Voyager2 #NASA
lasp.colorado.edu/missions/voy...
August 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Guess who turns 48 today!
Voyager 2 launched August 20, 1977, starting our (long) journey to interstellar space! LASP contributed the Photopolarimeter Subsystem on both Voyager missions, which studied Jupiter, Saturn, and the Rings of Saturn.
#Voyager2 #NASA
lasp.colorado.edu/missions/voy...
Voyager 2 launched August 20, 1977, starting our (long) journey to interstellar space! LASP contributed the Photopolarimeter Subsystem on both Voyager missions, which studied Jupiter, Saturn, and the Rings of Saturn.
#Voyager2 #NASA
lasp.colorado.edu/missions/voy...
🛰️ Are you joining us in Salt Lake City this week for #SmallSats25?
Visit the LASP booth to learn about our full-cycle capabilities, which could support your SmallSat dreams, and chat about our 100% science return rate on SmallSat missions.
👀 There might be some cool models to check out, too! 👀
Visit the LASP booth to learn about our full-cycle capabilities, which could support your SmallSat dreams, and chat about our 100% science return rate on SmallSat missions.
👀 There might be some cool models to check out, too! 👀
August 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🛰️ Are you joining us in Salt Lake City this week for #SmallSats25?
Visit the LASP booth to learn about our full-cycle capabilities, which could support your SmallSat dreams, and chat about our 100% science return rate on SmallSat missions.
👀 There might be some cool models to check out, too! 👀
Visit the LASP booth to learn about our full-cycle capabilities, which could support your SmallSat dreams, and chat about our 100% science return rate on SmallSat missions.
👀 There might be some cool models to check out, too! 👀
IPM-5 kicks off at LASP tomorrow!
🌖 Monday: Chock full of lunar science talks
💫 Tuesday: Asteroid exploration and poster sessions
🛰️ Wednesday: All things Uranus and a future mission to explore the icy world
Check out the full schedule here: lasp.colorado.edu/meetings/ipm...
🌖 Monday: Chock full of lunar science talks
💫 Tuesday: Asteroid exploration and poster sessions
🛰️ Wednesday: All things Uranus and a future mission to explore the icy world
Check out the full schedule here: lasp.colorado.edu/meetings/ipm...
August 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
IPM-5 kicks off at LASP tomorrow!
🌖 Monday: Chock full of lunar science talks
💫 Tuesday: Asteroid exploration and poster sessions
🛰️ Wednesday: All things Uranus and a future mission to explore the icy world
Check out the full schedule here: lasp.colorado.edu/meetings/ipm...
🌖 Monday: Chock full of lunar science talks
💫 Tuesday: Asteroid exploration and poster sessions
🛰️ Wednesday: All things Uranus and a future mission to explore the icy world
Check out the full schedule here: lasp.colorado.edu/meetings/ipm...
Don't miss a chance to discuss the future of planetary exploration at a lab that's visited all of the planets in our solar system! Registration for the International Workshop on Instrumentation for Planetary Missions- 6 closes tomorrow, July 17. Register here: lasp.colorado.edu/meetings/ipm... #IPM6
July 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Don't miss a chance to discuss the future of planetary exploration at a lab that's visited all of the planets in our solar system! Registration for the International Workshop on Instrumentation for Planetary Missions- 6 closes tomorrow, July 17. Register here: lasp.colorado.edu/meetings/ipm... #IPM6
We ❤️ Webb as much as the next lab, but LASP knows that you can do astrophysics research with our littlest explorers. Learn about how SmallSats are shaping the future of astrophysics at #AAS246 during our special session, “From CubeSats to SmallSats - Big Science with Small Budgets in Astrophysics”.
June 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We ❤️ Webb as much as the next lab, but LASP knows that you can do astrophysics research with our littlest explorers. Learn about how SmallSats are shaping the future of astrophysics at #AAS246 during our special session, “From CubeSats to SmallSats - Big Science with Small Budgets in Astrophysics”.
Welcome to the 2025 Boulder Solar Alliance REU class! We're looking forward to hosting these undergraduates from around the country this summer, who will do hands-on heliophysics research with LASP scientists. Happy to have you all here!
June 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Welcome to the 2025 Boulder Solar Alliance REU class! We're looking forward to hosting these undergraduates from around the country this summer, who will do hands-on heliophysics research with LASP scientists. Happy to have you all here!