The Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL)
@UCBerkeley
(UCB) is a preeminent university lab for space research and has participated in 50+ NASA missions since 1959.
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!
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.
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:
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:
.
@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:
@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
@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!
@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!
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.
“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.
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 ➡️
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:
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:
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: