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	UCL Space & Climate Physics
		We aim to unravel the mysteries of space through research in fields ranging from the Earth's climate to a study of explosive events that occurred at the very limits of the known Universe.
		Space science is a discipline that demands highly innovative technologies and MSSL has an international reputation for excellence in this area.
		Science activities are not restricted to the instruments that we produce.
	www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk (303 words)

	About SSL (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		ODGINGS IN The Space Sciences Laboratory at Berkeley was initiated in 1958 by a committee of the faculty who recognized that the new technology of rockets and satellites opened new realms of investigation and research to the physical, biological, and engineering sciences.
		The space physics program, directed by Professor Kinsey A. Anderson, involving experiments carried by balloons, rockets, and satellites quickly reached proportions beyond the capabilities of the space available on campus, and it was necessary to find space off campus to meet their needs.
		The sustaining grant, which provided the Space Sciences Laboratory with a core of funds for interdisciplinary research in the physical, biological, engineering, and social sciences, gave the Laboratory a foundation on which to build faculty programs and to generate new areas of graduate training through research.
	old.ssl.berkeley.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /about.html (772 words)

	CISM // What is Space Weather?
		The chief actors in the origin and development of space weather are the sun, the solar wind, and the earth.
		At least four solar phenomena, not one of which is well understood, release matter from the sun into the solar system and together are the starting point for understanding the processes by which space weather develops and affects near-earth space: coronal mass ejections, solar flares, coronal holes, and solar prominences.
		The make-up of the solar wind generally resembles what the sun is made of: mostly protons, or, hydrogen ions—the hydrogen nucleus stripped of its electron—and about five percent helium ions and smaller fractions of ions of oxygen and other elements.
	www.bu.edu /cism/SpaceWeather/spaceweather.html (1221 words)

	11.07.2002 - UC Berkeley analysis of satellite data turns up first evidence that magnetic processes in space can ...
		Berkeley - A chance observation of high-energy electrons emanating from a tiny region of space where the sun and Earth's magnetic fields intertwine provides the first solid evidence that a process called magnetic reconnection accelerates electrons to near the speed of light in the Earth's magnetosphere and perhaps throughout the universe where magnetic fields entangle.
		This highly energetic process is thought to occur in explosive solar flares, generating electrons with energies ranging from tens to hundreds of thousands of electron volts that carry away as much as half the energy in the flare.
		The satellite RHESSI, designed and built by scientists at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, was launched by NASA on Feb. 5, 2002, on a two-year mission to study high-energy emissions from solar flares, including the production of energetic electrons by magnetic reconnection.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2002/11/07_space.html (1168 words)

	Communications and Space Sciences Laboratories Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Communications and Space Sciences Laboratory (CSSL) is an interdisciplinary and intercollege component of Penn State's Department of Electrical Engineering.
		Founded in 1949 by Arthur H. Waynick as the Ionosphere Research Laboratory (IRL), it became the Communications and Space Sciences Laboratory in 1985 because of the diversity of its research activities.
		The laboratory currently has 16 faculty members and numerous graduate students.
	www.ee.psu.edu /cssl (191 words)

	Space Science Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Space Plasma Physics Modelling Page - Members of the Space Plasma Physics Modelling Group at the University of Washington use computer simulation techniques to model a variety of space plasma phenomena near the sun, the earth and other planets.
		Space Plasma Physics - Particles and Imaging Research - This is The University of Iowa, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Space Plasma Physics Research Group led by Dr. Louis A. Frank.
		Space Science Missions - The Office of Space Science is involved in many missions, often in cooperation with international partners.
	set.lanl.gov /programs/lasso/SpaceLinks.htm (4511 words)

	TeacherSource . Recommended Links . Science & Technology \| PBS
		The activities are presented by the Center for Science Education at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory.
		Space careers and aerospace studies are presented, highlighted by interviews with ten women working at the CSA.
		This 16-day mission was dedicated to research in physical, life, and space sciences, conducted in approximately 80 separate experiments, including experiments from students such as ant behavior in space.
	www.pbs.org /teachersource/recommended/science_tech/lk_space.shtm (3328 words)

	NASA Quest > Space Team Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Currently, I am serving as the Science Communications Director for the Space Sciences Laboratory at the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, and my role in STS-83 is to work as part of the Mission Scientist Team as the MSL-1 Science Communications Coordinator.
		However, there were some folks who made it easier to pursue science through their encouragement and teaching ability.
		Try to observe science at work around you, whether it be in a dump truck loading dirt, in the way objects move in the sky, or in the growth of a tree through the seasons.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /space/team/horack.html (882 words)

	Moore Foundation awards $2.38 million for supernova research
		The grant is one of five the Moore Foundation has recently made to the University of California system in astronomy and astrophysics, including grants for the creation of a 30-meter telescope (with Caltech) and to the Mount Wilson Observatory, and grants for studies of stellar atmospheres and adaptive optics.
		Co-principal investigators are Saul Perlmutter, a senior scientist in the Physics Division of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at UC Berkeley, and Michael Levi, also a member of Berkeley Lab's Physics Division and a senior fellow at UCB's Space Sciences Laboratory.
		UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory is a campus-wide, multidisciplinary organization that serves to integrate work in space sciences on campus and to stimulate new programs of research.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-09/dbnl-mfa092004.php (852 words)

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		Bob Lin, director of UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, and others applaud as the HESSI spacecraft is launched on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2002.
		Bob Lin, director of the Space Sciences lab, and vice chancellor Beth Burnside celebrate following the launch of the HESSI spacecraft on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2002.
		Despite the setback, solar activity has remained high this year, and the HESSI science team believes the new solar probe will be able to image a thousand or more solar flares during its two-year primary science mission.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2002/02/05_hessi.html (846 words)

	The Laboratories
		Space Sciences, pursuing studies on solar and cosmic physics, astronomy, and astrophysics, as well as solar and interplanetary dynamics.
		Microgravity Sciences, to study processes that are obscured by gravity on Earth, and to test physical theories at levels of accuracy that are impossible on Earth—again due to the planet's gravity.
		The U.S. Laboratory will house the equipment for experiments that will be done in microgravity and the Earth, life, and space sciences.
	aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov /HAS/Cirr/SS/5/2.cfm (2411 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| 3-D map of local interstellar space shows neighborhood
		The first detailed map of space within about 1,000 light years of Earth places the solar system in the middle of a large hole that pierces the plane of the galaxy, perhaps left by an exploding star one or two million years ago.
		Instead, said astronomer Barry Welsh of UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, the region around the sun is an irregular cavity of low-density gas that has tunnels branching off through the surrounding dense gas wall.
		The existence of a network of tunnels of hot gas that thread interstellar space was first suggested nearly 30 years ago by Don Cox and Barry Smith of the University of Wisconsin.
	spaceflightnow.com /news/n0305/30map3d (1778 words)

	SPADUS: An Instrument for Measurement of ...
		Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space* Research, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A. Lockheed Space Sciences Laboratory, 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304, U.S.A. Space Science* Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, U.S.A. Abstract
		We discuss the characteristics of a SPACE DUST (SPADUS) instrument, based on polyvinylidene flouride (PVDF) dust sensors, which is being developed for flight on the USA near-Earth ARGOS mission to measure the flux, mass, velocity and trajectory of near-Earth dust.
		The SPADUS instrument will be jointly developed by groups at the University of Chicago (dust sensors and linear electronics), the Lockheed Space Sciences Laboratory (digital electronics and ADS system), and the Space Sciences Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (mechanical design and construction).
	www.css.tayloru.edu /~physics/spadus/doc1.html (703 words)

	NASA Ames - SS Division - (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While this was physically tough, the reward was immense as we successfully completed all of our science, including our two planned scuba dives in the summit lake of the volcano....' Click here to read her letter, or visit the highlakes web page.
		He was elected a fellow by two prestigious science organizations, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.
		The Space Science and Astrobiology Division at NASA Ames Research Center conducts research and mission-related activities that are structured around the study of the origins and evolution of stars, the interstellar medium, planetary systems, and life on Earth and (perhaps) elsewhere.
	www-space.arc.nasa.gov.cob-web.org:8888 (692 words)

	Physical Research Laboratory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Known as the cradle of Space Sciences in India, the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) was founded on November 11, 1947 by Dr.
		The Laboratory was formally established in the M. Science College, Ahmedabad, with support from the Karmkshetra Educational Foundation and the Ahmedabad Education Society.
		Earth Sciences: Studies that are particularly related to geochronology, geochemistry, glaciology, oceanography and palaeoclimatology and isotope geology are one of the most actively researched upon subjects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Physical_Research_Laboratory (622 words)

	Print the story
		The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation of San Francisco has awarded $2,377,000 to the University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, in support of the Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory).
		Grantmaking is concentrated in initiatives that support the Foundation's principal areas of concern: environmental conservation, science, higher education, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
		UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory is a campus-wide, multidisciplinary organization that serves to integrate work in space sciences on the UCB campus and to stimulate new programs of research.
	www.physorg.com /printnews.php?newsid=1250 (817 words)

	Deep Space Online > Teachers' Lounge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edu.Space: the Office of Public Outreach's Education Group is dedicated to providing K-12 astronomy and space science support.
		Exploring the Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Although gamma-ray bursts are a phenomenon that have been studied for over 25 years, the debate regarding their nature is far from being solved.
		Black Holes: Black holes are extremely compact space objects that were once massive stars which collapsed inward due to the force of their own gravity.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /dso/teachers/index.html (495 words)

	Satellite Experiment Snaps Photos Of Sprites, Jets And Elves
		Photos of red sprites, blue jets, elves and sprite halos are now flowing into the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory from the first satellite instrument devoted to the study of these puzzling high-altitude lightning flashes.
		All these phenomena are caused by the discharge of lightning from storm clouds into the upper atmosphere and ionosphere, which begins at an altitude of about 100 kilometers (63 miles).
		The Taiwanese government, however, funded an instrument called The Imager of Sprites and Upper Atmospheric Lightning (ISUAL), which was built by a collaborative team of Taiwanese, Japanese and UC Berkeley scientists and launched aboard the Taiwanese satellite ROCSAT-2 (Republic of China Satellite 2) on May 20 of this year.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/eo-04zzz.html (1027 words)

	SPACE.com -- Lunar Explorers Face Moon Dust Dilemma (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Also tagged as the "dirty dozen," astronauts on the various Apollo missions worked long hours in the lunar environment, setting up science equipment and collectively bagged 840 pounds (382 kilograms) of rock and other surface material for shipment back to Earth.
		Mining specialists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and NASA managers took part in the eighth Space Resources Roundtable, held here Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at the Colorado School of Mines and in collaboration with the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas.
		Halekas said that he advocates science experiments either in lunar orbit or on the Moon's surface—preferably both—in order to gauge the problem.
	www.space.com.cob-web.org:8888 /scienceastronomy/061007_moon_dust-1.html (856 words)

	Old Photographic Technique Applied To Future Energy Research
		March 24, 1999: One of the oldest photographic techniques is helping scientists study what happens as they push the frontiers of nuclear physics in the quest for a 21st century power source.
		The Astrophysics Branch in the Space Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is providing photographic emulsions for use in detectors inside the petawatt laser facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif.
		NASA/Marshall is the last U.S. laboratory that can make large, thick photographic emulsions that record tracks as nuclear particles pass through.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1999-03/NSFC-OPTA-240399.php (1735 words)

	Space Science-- NIEHS Kids Page
		At the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) we study the effects of the environment on health in laboratories located in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
		The discoveries from space and earth science missions engage our imaginations and encourage students to consider exciting careers in science, health, and the environment.
		The Space Sciences Laboratory at Berkeley was initiated in 1958 with a primary goal of fostering outstanding research in space-related sciences and providing education for the next generation of space scientists.
	www.niehs.nih.gov /kids/lunar/home.htm (582 words)

	Space Exploration History: Explorer 1
		Stuhlinger has held the posts of Director of Research Project Laboratory, Army Ballistic Missile Agency; Director of the Space Sciences Laboratory and was the first Associate Director for Science, both at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
		He wrote articles on rockets, orbiting space stations, and travel to the Moon for his high school journal, and he decided at that time that during the rest of his life, he wanted to help open the road for man's travel to his celestial neighbors.
		This was the first of several thousand satellites and space probes launched by engineers and scientists all over the Earth.
	www.astrodigital.org /space/explorer1.html (797 words)

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		Kistler Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA H.
		Mobius, C. Mouikis, and J. Quinn Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA B.
		Fazakerley Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Surrey, United Kingdom During February 2001 the CLUSTER satellites recorded a number of perigee passes through the midnight auroral zone.
	image.gsfc.nasa.gov /publication/abstract/2002_kistler_etal.txt (409 words)

	cssl
		The Communications and Space Sciences Laboratory (CSSL), founded in 1947, is composed of a group of electrical engineers, physicists, and meteorologists who work together to study the atmosphere, ionosphere, and various electromagnetic processes.
		The laboratory traditionally has provided research opportunities for graduate students from not only electrical engineering but also physics, meteorology, mathematics, aeronautics, and engineering science and mechanics.
		Faculty from these disciplines also join the laboratory's research efforts, and international scientists frequently visit CSSL to work with faculty and students.
	www.engr.psu.edu /ee/research/cssl.html (525 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| Satellite finds electrons brought to near-light speed
		A chance observation of high-energy electrons emanating from a tiny region of space where the sun and Earth's magnetic fields intertwine provides the first solid evidence that a process called magnetic reconnection accelerates electrons to near the speed of light in the Earth's magnetosphere and perhaps throughout the universe where magnetic fields entangle.
		Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory report the results of their data analysis in the Nov. 4 issue of Physical Review Letters.
		Stunning posters featuring images from the Hubble Space Telescope and world-renowned astrophotographer David Malin are now available from the Astronomy Now Store.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0211/12electrons (1355 words)

	Department of Physics and Space Sciences
		Thomas Moschoutis (Physics '05) writes: "I am glad to tell you that I was accepted for a Master of Science with a major in Physics, specialised in Quantum Physics, at the KTH University of Stockholm.
		Christina Pelzer (Space Sciences B.S. '04) is currently working at Johnson Space Center with the Motion Control Group for the International Space Station.
		Nicole Silvestri (Space Sciences M.S. '97, Ph.D. '02) is a research associate in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
	cos.fit.edu /pss/alumni.html (1777 words)

	Testing global storm-time electric field models using particle spectra on multiple spacecraft
		During a magnetic storm on 17–18 February 1998, several spacecraft sampled the inner magnetosphere over a wide range of L shells simultaneously and provided a unique opportunity to obtain particle spectra as a function of L shells, latitude, and local time.
		We present phase space modeling in a dipole magnetic field and with model electric fields during the recovery phase of that storm to explain the ion spectrograms obtained on three spacecraft (POLAR, EQUATOR-S, and FAST).
		The particle signatures studied are from the late recovery phase of the storm, but the particles are affected by the electric fields along their trajectories also during main phase.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2002/2001JA900174.shtml (377 words)

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