Announcements

• LAS Meeting – June 18, 2026
  Planes, Rockets and Baloons: 80 years of suborbital space research at the University of Colorado Tom Woods, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at University of Colorado at Boulder Before NASA and the era of satellites, space research began in the 1930s-1940s as modest experiments to study Earth’s upper atmosphere (stratosphere) and solar ultraviolet radiation using planes, rockets, and balloons. None of these early science missions made it into an orbit about Earth and thus are known as suborbital flights. The first University of Colorado suborbital missions were led by Physics Department professors with flights of their solar instruments aboard… Read more: LAS Meeting – June 18, 2026