Dan Baker
From 2017 to 2020, students from five different countries traveled to the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä to engage in an ambitious undertaking: to design and build a miniature satellite. Ìý ÌýWatch the
A Japanese rocket launched the United Arab Emirates’ first mission to Mars July 19, an orbiter that will study the planet’s weather while demonstrating the country’s growing space capabilities. The H-2A rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan at 5:58 p.m. Eastern. The rocket’s upper stage released the...
This month, researchers from Boulder and beyond will watch live as a slice of space exploration history launches from a pad on the Japanese island of Tanegashima.Ìý TheÌýEmirates Mars Mission (EMM) is slated to blast off aboard an H-IIA
A first-of-its-kind camera developed in partnership between ²ÊÃñ±¦µä and Ball Aerospace will soon be landing on the moon.Ìý NASA announced today that it has selected the scientific instrument, called the Lunar Compact Infrared Imaging System (
What would your life be like without the benefits that space and years of research affords us? It’s a question that Daniel Baker frequently asks in his role as director of the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space
Today there are space missions exploring every corner of our solar system, looking back to the beginning of time itself and peering globally from space at our planet Earth. Most of these achievements have been made possible because Colorado universities, national labs and aerospace companies have expanded the frontiers of space...
In 1948, William Pietenpol, the chair of physics at the University of Colorado, assembled a team of scientists and engineers for an ambitious venture: to launch an Aerobee rocket into the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere and collect new
Mass media representations of space weather—variable conditions in space that can affect the technological systems modern society depends on—often evoke visions of catastrophic power grid failures and global chaos. The result can be gripping film or
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) has named LASP Director Daniel Baker as the recipient of the 2019 Hannes Alfvén Medal. The medal was established in 1997 in recognition of the scientific achievements of Hannes Alfvén and is awarded for