14 December 2009 Space Dynamics Laboratory Payload Blasts‐Off to Chart the Skies: In a spectacular pre‐dawn launch, a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket lifted NASA’s 1,457 pound payload from NASA’s Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. at 6:09 a.m. (PST). Flying 22,300 miles above the Earth, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System acquired WISE’s first signal approximately 60 minutes after liftoff.

13 November 2009 USURF Taps Holt to Lead SDL, Marshall’s BD Role Expands: The Utah State University Research Foundation has named Niel Holt director of its Space Dynamics Laboratory. The appointment became effective on November 13.

15 June 2009 Space Dynamics Laboratory Awarded Contract for Infrared Payloads: The Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force, Space and Missiles Systems Center (SMC) for the research and development of infrared payloads, test and evaluation, software development, and data processing.

19 May 2009 Space Dynamics Laboratory Ships Science Instrument to Chart the Skies: Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) announced that it has completed NASA’s Wide‐field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) science instrument. The WISE instrument was shipped from SDL’s manufacturing and test facility in North Logan, Utah, to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo., where it will be integrated onto the satellite.

31 March 2009 Space Dynamics Laboratory Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation: Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) is celebrating its 50th year of providing world class, space‐based and terrestrial solutions for commercial, civil and defense customers.

30 March 2009 Agi and Space Dynamics Laboratory Form Business Partnership: Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI), the producer of commercial off‐the‐shelf software for analysis of space, defense and intelligence assets, and Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL), a nonprofit research corporation focused on defense and science objectives, announced their new business partnership today.

07 January 2009 New company in valley is first spinout from Space Dynamics Laboratory: Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory has reached another milestone. On December 19th, the largest operating unit of the Utah State University Research Foundation signed a license agreement granting its intellectual property to TMT, or Thermal Management Technologies. The historic event represents the first for–profit company to be spun out from the non–profit research laboratory, creating opportunities for economic growth in Utah and the Cache Valley.