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Los Alamos National Lab

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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a multidisciplinary research institution that plays a significant role in space exploration and national security. While not a space agency, LANL designs, builds, and analyzes data from instruments for space missions, contributing to over 200 missions since 1963. The lab focuses on developing innovative sensing systems for space-based applications, studying space environments, and monitoring international compliance with nuclear test ban treaties. LANL partners with organizations like NASA and focuses on areas like space weather, planetary exploration, and remote sensing.

gov defenseFounded 1943
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
www.lanl.gov/
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory shipped 0.5 kg (a little over 0.4536 kg) of new heat source plutonium oxide to Los Alamos National Laboratory.

RelationshipsValue 5.0Nov 22, 2023NASA Advances Toward Using Plutonium-238 for Fueling Space Missions

In 2021, Kodeboyina was selected as one of three people in the first cohort of The New Mexico Lab-Embedded Entrepreneur Program (LEEP) at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

GovernanceValue 2.0Sep 15, 2023Blue Space founder is among the “20 Under 35” SSPI professionals to be honored by SSPI

The second launch of the Bolt Rocket was conducted under the Responsive Development Experiment (ReDX) program for the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

PlanGeneralValue 3.8Jun 16, 2023X-Bow Systems Announces the Second Successful Launch of "Bolt" Rocket

Descartes Labs was established in 2014 by a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory.

GeneralValue 2.0Aug 7, 2022A controlling interest in Descartes Labs is acquired by Antarctica Capital

Descartes Labs was spun off from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2014.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Aug 4, 2022Geospatial analysis provider Descartes Labs sold to private equity firm

NanoAvionics built satellites for missions that included NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) and Los Alamos National Laboratory’s first astrophysics payload in 20 years.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Dec 14, 2021NanoAvionics and other UN:IO consortium members to start work on feasibility study funded with €1.4 million by the EU

Descartes Labs was spun off from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2014 and is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 3.0Jan 22, 2020Descartes Labs unveils data refinery, modeling platform

Derek Tournear spent four years working at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

GovernanceValue 1.4Sep 25, 2019Space Development Agency looks for political boost after early stumbles

The Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier (ELROI) is a solution developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory to provide unique optical identification for satellites.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.5Aug 9, 2018Laser “license plate” could improve identification of cubesats

NNSA’s Los Alamos National Laboratory designed, built, and tested the Kilopower reactor for less than $20,000,000.

CapabilityFinancialGeneralValue 4.2May 3, 2018NASA considering flight test of space nuclear reactor technology
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