Round-SSL-Logo-YellowThe Space Sciences Laboratory

The Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) is the University of California system’s premier space sciences research facility and one of the preeminent university laboratories in the country for space research.​​

OUR VALUES

Integrity, teamwork, excellence, inclusion, curiosity.

OUR GOAL

Our primary goal is to foster outstanding research in space-related sciences and provide education for the next generation of space scientists.

OUR IMPACT

LEAD principal investigators
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On NASA Explorer Missions

Satellite Projects
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INCLUDING Apollo 15 & 16, SkyLab, Hubble, COBE, IMAGE, RHESSI, NuSTAR, ICON and PSP

Educators
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Trained

Latest News

Technicians at the Space Sciences Laboratory assembling the payload for the COSI mission.
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WATCH: COSI will explore the gamma-ray sky

The payload for NASA’s Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) mission is now being at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL). In this series of videos, John Tomsick describes how COSI operates.

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