Current Work
SSL developed and maintains the SETI@home project which pioneered the application of distributed computing to the space sciences.
It created the related projects Stardust@home and BOINC.
It is home to the Space Physics Research Group, which does Plasma physics research.
It has developed many satellite missions and serves as a ground station for those missions. Some of the satellites it has developed are:
- The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) satellite
- The Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) satellite constellation
- The Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST)
- The Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPSat)
- The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE)
- The Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI)
It does science education outreach via the Center for Science Education (CSE).
Read more about this topic: Space Sciences Laboratory
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