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The University of Colorado (CU) is a prominent research university with significant involvement in the space industry, particularly through its Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). LASP designs, builds, and operates spacecraft and instruments, sending instruments to every planet in the solar system. CU also partners with organizations like NASA and provides educational and research opportunities for students in aerospace engineering and space exploration.

academicFounded 1876
Boulder, CO, United States
www.colorado.edu/
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DAPHNE’s science team is led by principal investigator Aimee Merkel of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

GovernanceGeneralValue 2.8Jun 25, 2026Studying Space Weather’s Reach Into Earth’s Atmosphere

Momentus Inc. secured a contract with the University of Colorado Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics for the upcoming OWLS mission.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Jun 17, 2026Space Weather Forecasting: Momentus Secures Commercial Payload Contract for Vigoride-9 OSV

Shannon Curry is MAVEN’s principal investigator and a researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

GovernanceValue 2.2Jun 3, 2026NASA ends MAVEN Mars mission after loss of signal

Tobias Niederwieser is an assistant research professor at BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

GovernanceValue 2.0Jun 1, 2026Así es el proyecto de investigación para la producción de células madre desde la Estación Espacial Internacional

AEPEX is a 6U CubeSat mission led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

GeneralValue 3.5May 14, 2026Exotrail Confirms Successful Deployment of NASA-Funded AEPEX CubeSat via Spacevan 002

The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder developed and built Libera after NASA selected it as the first Earth Venture Continuity mission.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Feb 4, 2026NASA Libera payload completes testing for future Earth energy tracking mission

Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) leads the AtmOCube mission in collaboration with the University of Wuppertal and the University of Colorado Boulder (LASP).

RelationshipsValue 3.8Jan 15, 2026NASA Selects AtmOCube Mission to Study Orbital Wave Interference

The DUSTER investigation is led by Xu Wang of the University of Colorado Boulder under a contract valued at 24.8 million dollars over three years.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 4.0Dec 10, 2025NASA prepares new lunar dust and seismic studies for Artemis IV

A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study TRAPPIST-1 flare activity.

GeneralValue 3.5Dec 10, 2025TRAPPIST 1 flares mapped to probe planetary habitability

Marcus Holzinger is the inaugural Hatfield Endowed Professor in Space Policy and Law at the University of Colorado Boulder.

GovernanceValue 2.5Nov 17, 2025Colorado Boulder advances research and education in space law and policy

The research team included scientists from UCLA, Pennsylvania State University, the University of the Netherlands, and the University of Colorado, Boulder.

GeneralValue 1.2Oct 24, 2025Newly found super-Earth orbits nearby star in promising habitable zone

The technology demonstration is managed by NASA Langley in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, the USGS, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Resonon Inc., Blue Canyon Technologies, and Quartus Engineering.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Sep 23, 2025NASA Arcstone satellite and spectrometer begin active lunar calibration mission

Erin Overcash, 34, is a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander with a bachelor’s in aerospace engineering and master’s in bioastronautics from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

GovernanceGeneralValue 1.4Sep 23, 2025All-American 2025 Class of Astronaut Candidates

The Lunar Compact Infrared Imaging System is managed by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

GovernanceValue 3.5Aug 29, 2024NASA contracts Intuitive Machines for Lunar South Pole research delivery

The National Cybersecurity Center collaborates with the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and the Colorado cybersecurity and SpaceCyber ecosystems to deliver an integrated interdisciplinary cyber center.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 2.0Mar 31, 2024National Cybersecurity Center to host SSC’s Spring 2024 AEE Symposium

In Orbit Aerospace won a $1,800,000 AFWERX contract to develop a novel method of spacecraft docking in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 4.6Mar 26, 2024In Orbit Aerospace wins $1.8 million AFWERX contract

The University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) assembled, tested, and operates CUTE.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Dec 12, 2023Cubesat offers template for future astronomy missions

The Regents of the University of Colorado Boulder is a lead institution selected under the University Consortium Research Opportunity 2.0/Space Strategic Technology Institute 1.

GeneralValue 2.0Aug 29, 2023USSF awards University Consortium Research Opportunity 2.0

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, EO Vista, the University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, and Southwest Research Institute won $800,000 contracts to perform definition-phase studies of the coronagraph for the NOAA Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 mission.

RelationshipsFinancialPlanValue 4.5May 3, 2023NASA awards contracts for NOAA coronagraph studies

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems delivered a spacecraft simulator to the University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in support of the Total and Spectral solar Irradiance Sensor-2 program.

RelationshipsCapabilityGeneralValue 4.0May 2, 2023General Atomics delivers spacecraft simulator supporting NASA TSIS-2 program
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