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 (Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, The Aerospace Corporation, Boeing, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, NASA JPL, etc.).

Voyager 1 & 2

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)

Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (Principal investigator)