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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.

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Space Sciences Laboratory
3 years
As you may have heard this morning, we are subcontracting to @Rocketlab for our spacecraft bus on our ESCAPADE mission to Mars. Looking forward to the mission and this exciting partnership!
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Rocket Lab
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The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission, led by @RobLillis at the University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory @UCBSSL , is a twin-spacecraft science mission that will orbit two Photons around Mars.
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We are hiring a Spacecraft Flight Dynamics Engineer for our Mission Ops Team! This is great, hands-on experience with lots of ownership. We have spacecraft in orbit around the Earth, Moon, and soon, Mars for @NASA missions. Apply:
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We @ucbssl are happy to be partnering with @BlueOrigin on our ESCAPADE mission. Thanks to @NASA_LSP
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Blue Origin
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We’re honored to have been selected by @NASA_LSP to launch the ESCAPADE science mission on #NewGlenn . With ESCAPADE, NASA will study Mars’ magnetosphere. Learn more:
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Our #NASAICON observatory is nestled inside the rocket that is attached to the belly of the L-1011 plane. Preparing for launch!
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NASA's Launch Services Program
6 years
. @NASA & @northropgrumman completed their Launch Readiness Review. There are no technical issues being worked at this time. #NASAICON will launch Wed., Nov. 7 from Northrop Grumman’s #PegasusXL rocket & Stargazer aircraft from Cape Canaveral in FL. More:
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NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission – Twin Martian Orbiters – Moves Toward Launch
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@NASA_LSP That’s right! We’ve worked with @NASA_LSP to launch all the satellites that we control from our Mission Operations Center here at UC Berkeley. At present, those are NuSTAR, THEMIS, and ARTEMIS, and our past missions are RHESSI and FAST. #NASAICON
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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@NASA_LSP @NASAKennedy #NASAICON ’s Science Operations & Mission Operations Centers are located at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab. The Mission Ops team are now at their consoles ready for launch – and will be for the next several years as we manage #NASAICON ’s ongoing satellite & science operations!
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@NASA_LSP @NASAKennedy We will capture raw data from #NASAICON ’s instruments at our Berkeley ground station/satellite dish, and convert it into accessible information for scientists to analyze to make exciting discoveries about this mysterious region of space!
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Profile: Q&A with SSL Aerospace Engineer, Amanda Slagle
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Parker Solar Probe Completes Fourth Closest Approach, Breaks New Speed and Distance Records
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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@NASA_LSP @NASASun @NASAGoddard @northropgrumman Karin from UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab is in the Mission Operations Center at UC Berkeley!
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New App Prepares Citizen Scientists for 2019 Solar Eclipse in South America
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Tools of the Trade: How Parker Solar Probe Will Study the Sun
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First Whispers of Solar Winds Birth
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OTD, August 12, 2018, Parker Solar Probe launched on a ground breaking mission to study the Sun
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Solving the sun’s super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe
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It’s SUNday for for Parker Solar Probe! Perihelion  #3
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NASA selects missions to observe the sun and its impact on Earth
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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MAVEN Finds That “Stolen” Electrons Enable Unusual Aurora on Mars
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Peg, Willis and Tom are GO for #NASAICON takeoff. Weather is looking good. R to L: ICON Principal Investigator Thomas Immel (UCB), ICON Program Exec Willis Jenkins (NASA), and Deputy Director of Heliophysics, Peg Luce (NASA) at the Mission Director's Center at Cape Canaveral AFS.
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Counting Down to ICON’s Launch
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Five THEMIS Satellites Launched OTD 12 Years ago, 2/17/2007
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Stuart Bowyer (1934-2020)
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“Sometimes you only get a box of band aids and rubberbands. That was the case here.”
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Parker Solar Probe takes its first up-close look at the sun
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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“This work was the very first use of the ICON tidal wind product. The product allowed Xinzhao’s team to calculate the flow of metal ions over Boulder. It’s a great example of how these tides seem to affect everything in space near Earth.” —Thomas Immel, PI of the ICON Mission.
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CIRES
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Atmospheric metal layers that appear at dusk and just before dawn seen over Boulder, CO for the first time. Work led by CIRES/ @CUBoulder ’s Xinzhao Chu, published this week in @theAGU Geophysical Research Letters. Read the full story ➡️
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OTD – August 12, 2018 Parker Solar Probe Launched to Start its Mission to Study the Sun
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Working at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab 📺
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Postcards from the Edge of Space: Scientists Present New Ionosphere Images and Science
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Scientists scramble to build payload for 2021 moon landing
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Effects of the Solar Wind
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SDO and the retired RHESSI satellite help scientists study potential between Solar Flares and “Sunquakes”
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Space Sciences Laboratory
6 years
Holy Cow! Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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ICON Launch Targeted for Oct. 10
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@NASA_LSP @45thSpaceWing @NASASun @northropgrumman We're here at UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab preparing for the #NASAICON launch. Here's a picture from earlier as the Mission Ops Center began to fill with engineers.
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Siegmund Wins the 2020 Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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2019 Robert P. Lin Graduate Fellowship
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TBT: UC Berkeley researchers build part of solar probe launched by NASA
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Profile: ICON’s Principal Investigator,Thomas Immel
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe explained in detail
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Space Sciences Laboratory
4 years
Our very own Dr. Robert Lillis was on @NBCBayArea news last night with a primer on @UCBerkeley Space Science Lab involvement in the Emirates Mars Mission ( #HopeMarsMission ). Take a look and let us know what you think:
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Cluster Helps Solve Mysteries of Geomagnetic Storms
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A Year Ago Parker Solar Probe Launched – What did it take to get to T-Zero
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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How Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter Make Complementary Measurements of the Sun
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Parker Solar Probe Heads Toward Second Venus Flyby
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OTD – Parker Solar Probe Launches, Now One Year, 2 Trips Around Sun and Approaching Third Encounter
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The 2020 COSI balloon campaign has started!
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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The HOPE Ultraviolet Spectrometer First Images of Mars
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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FOXSI 3 to Launch from White Sands Missile Range NET Sept 7
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Parker Solar Probe Begins Longest Science Observation Campaign
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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@NASA_LSP @NASAGoddard @NASASun @northropgrumman UC Berkeley reads you! Mission Operations Center ready for launch. Go #NASICON !
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Space Sciences Laboratory
5 years
ICON’s mission to the ionosphere begins with beautiful fall launch
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Space Sciences Laboratory
6 years
10 days until the launch of ICON
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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NASA Spacecraft Launches on Mission to Explore Frontier of Space
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Researchers Model Superflare from Sun-Like Star at NCCS
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Space Sciences Laboratory
6 years
CAL DAY at SSL!
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Parker Solar Probe is Movin
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Twin STEREO Spacecraft Launched 14 years Ago October 26, 2004
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Parker Solar Probe Launch
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Space Sciences Laboratory
3 years
Tonight, from Wallops, there will be a suborbital sounding rocket launch carrying a Vlf trans-Ionospheric Propagation Experiment Rocket, or VIPER. The PI is SSL's John Bonnell:
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Parker probe traces solar wind to its source on sun’s surface via @ucberkeley
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Parker Solar Probe Wins AAS 2018 Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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NASA just received a major data dump from its mission to ‘Touch the Sun’
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Parker Solar Probe Captures its First Images of Venus’ Surface in Visible Light, Confirmed
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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NASA Mission Finds Tonga Volcanic Eruption Effects Reached Space
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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ICON will be studying the ionosphere. What is it, you say? Let's go! Welcome to the Ionosphere via @YouTube
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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NASA’s NuSTAR Makes Illuminating Discoveries With ‘Nuisance’ Light
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Mission Operations prepares for tonight’s ICON launch
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Catching Big Air: Q&A With SSL Systems Engineer Dr. Ellen Taylor
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Parker Solar Probe Approaches Second Solar Encounter
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ICON on the move
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Discovering the Sun’s Mysteriously Hot Atmosphere
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Arab world’s first interplanetary spacecraft safely arrives at Mars
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NASA’s ICON: Countdown to T-Zero for a Mission to Study Space Weather
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Atlas 5 blasts off with Solar Orbiter
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ICONic Views of the Atmosphere
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Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt?
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A MAVEN Double Today
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Parker Solar Probe Breaks Record, Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Sun
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Wind: Discoveries and Impacts of a Venerable Spacecraft
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Parker Solar Probe Offers Stunning View of Venus
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Space Sciences Laboratory
4 years
The Space Sciences Lab at @UCBerkeley is looking for an Executive Officer to help oversee the lab. This is a senior position that will require close work with our scientists, engineers, the University, @NASA and others. Please see job description here:
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Air-launched rocket arrives at Cape Canaveral for ICON satellite delivery mission
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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The Parker Solar Probe is the single greatest innovation of 2018
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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Live coverage: NASA satellite to ride air-launched Pegasus to orbit Wednesday night Oct 9
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A New Year, A New Look
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MAVEN – Solar Wind Pressure Influences Mars’ Magnetic Fields
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The Magnetic Tail of Mars
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Parker Solar Probe Gets Extra Observation Time
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13 Years Ago Today, the Twin STEREO Spacecraft Launched to Study the Sun.
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OTD – Aug 30, 2012 RBSP/Van Allen Probes Launched
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MAVEN has been collecting science data for two Mars years
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NASA Retires Prolific Solar Observatory, After 16 Years
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NASA AA Thomas Zurbuchen visits SSL
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Profile: On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! Catching Up with Mark Lewis
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Space Sciences Laboratory
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@SolarGirl2018 @NASASun @UCBerkeley @northropgrumman @NASA_LSP We're so ready here at Space Sciences Lab for #NASAICON 's imminent launch!
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