LASP and the International Space Station: Future Measurements of Solar Irradiance

LASP has a long history of measuring the Sun’s radiant energy from high-altitude balloons, sounding rockets, and from satellite platforms in order to understand its influences on the terrestrial environment.

LASP’s research efforts in Sun-Earth connections are end-to-end, from instrument development, build, calibration, and characterization, to mission operations, science data processing, analysis, and interpretation.

In 2017, we will expand our knowledge of the Sun’s output and its contributions in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum from a new frontier—the International Space Station (ISS).

In this April 1, 2015 LASP public lecture, LASP Atmospheric Research Scientist, Odele Coddington, discusses how solar irradiance measurements, obtained from the ISS, will give us new insight into the Sun’s variability and its effects on all Earth-processes, including climate. Dr Coddington includes in her presentation videos that demonstrate the technical challenges LASP engineers are meeting in order to make measurements of the Sun from the ISS.

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