Past Missions with UCLA Involvement
Many space-related activities originate or take place at UCLA. Below is a list of recent or future missions with a UCLA Principal Investigator or science team members. This impressive list illustrates the powerful impact of UCLA on the space program and the potential for productive interactions with local corporations (SpaceX, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, The Aerospace Corporation, Boeing, Virgin Galactic, XPRIZE, NASA JPL, etc.).
Apollo 11 (Lunar geology Science team members)
Apollo 15 Subsatellite (Instrument Principal investigator)
OGO-1,3,5 (Instrument Principal investigator)
ST-5 (Instrument Principal investigator)
Galileo mission to Jupiter (Instrument Principal Investigator)
Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres (Principal investigator)
Beresheet lunar lander, Google X-Prize (Instrument Principal Investigator)
Cassini mission to Saturn (Science team members)
RBSP/Van Allen Probes (Science team members)
Blue Dawn MHD Pump experiment, BruinSpace (ASGR Ken Souza Memorial Student Spaceflight Competition Winner)
Mars InSight (Instrument Principal Investigator, Science team members)
ELFIN: Electron Loss and Fields Investigation, CubeSat Mission (Principal investigator, first satellite built at UCLA)
Active NASA Missions
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (Principal investigator)
THEMIS-ARTEMIS (Principal investigator)
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Instrument principal investigator)
MESSENGER (Science team members)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (Science team members)
JUNO - mission to Jupiter (Science team members)
STEREO (Science team members)
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (Instrument Principal Investigator, Science team members)
Solar Orbiter (Science team members)
Parker Solar Probe (Heliospheric Origins Principal Investigator, Science team members)
Mars 2020 Rover (Instrument Principal Investigator)
Funded Future NASA Missions:
Europa Clipper (Instrument Principal investigator, 2024 launch)
TRACERS mission (Instrument Principal investigator)