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Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) is a nonprofit government contractor owned by Utah State University.SDL is the sole University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) for the United States Missile Defense Agency; and, is one of 15 UARCs in the nation for the United States Department of Defense.
Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL), a contractor owned by Utah State, is one of 15 University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) of the United States Department of Defense and is the UARC for the Missile Defense Agency. As of 2018, SDL has conducted more than 430 successful space missions and deployed more than 500 hardware and software systems ...
AWE was built by the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory, and the mission is led by Michael Taylor of Utah State University. [1] NASA selected AWE as an Explorers Program Mission of Opportunity in February 2019. [2] [3] The SpaceX CRS-29 spacecraft carrying AWE was successfully launched on 10 November 2023.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). [4] [5] It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting the asteroid head-on. [6]
He returned to the U.S. in 1992 to join Space Dynamics Laboratory, where he led the spacecraft systems engineering on three small satellites for the Department of Defense. He also worked on various joint missile defense programs conducted between America and Russia.
The Space Dynamics Lab (SDL) of Utah State University provides the camera systems for both the SG and CI. UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) is responsible for MUSE mission operations and level 0 data processing, at their Mission Operations Center (MOC).
November 2004 — NASA selects the Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University to build the telescope for WISE. October 2006 — WISE is confirmed for development by NASA and authorized to proceed with development. Mission cost at this time is estimated to be US$300 million.
AIM carries three instruments: an infrared solar occultation differential absorption radiometer, built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University (Solar Occultation for Ice Experiment - SOFIE); a panoramic ultraviolet imager (Cloud Imaging and particle Size Experiment - CIPS); and, an in situ dust detector (Cosmic Dust Experiment ...