Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is a research organization at the University of Colorado Boulder.

LASP is a research institute with over one hundred research scientists ranging in fields from solar influences, to Earth's and other planetary atmospherics processes, space weather, space plasma and dusty plasma physics.

Founded after World War II, the first scientific instruments built at LASP were launched into space using captured German V-2 rockets.

To this day LASP continues a suborbital rocket program through periodic calibration instrument flights from White Sands Missile Range.

LASP has historical ties to Ball Aerospace Corporation and the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA).