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The Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) @UCBerkeley (UCB) is a preeminent university lab for space research and has participated in 50+ NASA missions since 1959.
Berkeley, CA
Joined May 2012
John Tomsick, PI of NASA's COSI mission, describes the practical applications resulting from gamma ray detectors. From PET scans to radiation monitoring to protecting astronauts, Compton imaging technology has a profound impact on our health and safety.
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Lots going on today, but thought you might want another shot of the booster on the move.
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Never Tell Me The Odds Blue Origin’s New Glenn booster for NG-2 is rolling out this morning to LC-36. This booster will launch a pair of satellites to Mars as well as possibly become the first New Glenn booster to land at sea.
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John Clarke, UC Berkeley emeritus professor, awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in #Physics. The Nobel Prize committee honored Clarke "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit."
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The Nobel Prize committee honored Clarke "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit." These circuits were forerunners of the qubits...
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🆕 The discovery of new complex organic molecules at Saturn's #Enceladus enhances the likelihood that the moon is habitable 🪐 On Earth, these molecules are involved in chemical reaction chains that lead to the more complex molecules essential for life. Read more 👉
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Nobel laureate George Smoot, UC Berkeley physicist whose work with satellite experiments confirmed the Big Bang theory, has died at 80. https://t.co/Jx2Hks3PMJ
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Our ESCAPADE team is ready for launch to Mars!!
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The Carruthers mission and SSL were featured by KQED. Of the mission, our director @ltelkins said, “Our big strength over time has been space weather...How does it affect our Earth’s atmosphere?... And that’s exactly what we’re going to be looking at." https://t.co/WqMT6IivgB
kqed.org
A UC Berkeley lab is controlling a NASA mission to study the farthest reaches of Earth’s atmosphere from afar using the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory.
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Go New Glenn! ESCAPADE is gearing up for launch!
An update on NG-2: ESCAPADE is at Astrotech and GS1 is headed to LC-36 in early October. Next up is the vehicle hotfire mid-month with launch soon thereafter.
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Scenes from our Mission Operations Center during launch of NASA's Carruthers, IMAP and SWFO-L1 on September 24. SSL operates Carruthers, built the instrumentation and contributes to the science. We also built an instrument for SWFO-L1 and lead an experiment on IMAP.
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This radio telescope will soon be sent to the moon. 🚀🌕 With all major components complete, we've finished a critical project phase for LuSEE-Night, and the telescope is now undergoing final assembly. @ucbssl @BerkeleyLab @NASA @ENERGY
https://t.co/0DvoGSZz31
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With all major telescope components completed, the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night is now undergoing final assembly.
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SSL mission operations director @SpaceAbhi spoke with KTVU about this morning's launch of the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, IMAP and SWFO-L1. SSL is involved in all three missions. Tripathi says, "Berkeley has an outsized role in this particular launch."
I spoke with @KTVU about our @ucbssl Carruthers launch this morning from Cape Canaveral. Nothing beats the feeling of a launch day! 🚀 https://t.co/vxjNHvOwjU
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NASA's Carruthers mission launched this morning and is communicating with the Mission Operations Center at the @UCBerkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. Read more 👇 https://t.co/vnw6iRfpIT
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Carruthers and ESCAPADE were featured in this Berkeleyside story on SSL's many contributions to space science and exploration.
UC Berkeley is about to go to Mars
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Correction: Carruthers and SWFO-L1 carry SSL-built instruments. IMAP carries an SSL-managed experiment.
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Launch of Carruthers, IMAP and SWFO-L1, all carrying SSL-built instruments, is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m. EDT.
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It's a big week here at SSL. We built instruments for all three of the spacecraft that are scheduled to launch this week and expand understanding of harmful space weather (IMAP, SWFO-L1 and Carruthers). https://t.co/g0o4v5LWAS
nasa.gov
NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for an observatory designed to study space weather and explore and map the boundaries of
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$2 in economic activity is generated for every $1 the federal government invests in science. Science spending pays off. Tell Congress: Investing in science leads to a stronger America #SpeakUp4Science
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SSL mission operations director Abhishek Tripathi spoke with KTVU on the upcoming Carruthers Geocorona Observatory launch. Carruthers will image Earth's exosphere—the outermost layer of the atmosphere and one of our defenses against harmful space weather.
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