Space Dynamics Laboratory Payload Blasts‐Off to Chart the Skies

Dec 14, 2009

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.

USURF Taps Holt to Lead SDL, Marshall’s BD Role Expands

Nov 13, 2009

The Utah State University Research Foundation has named Niel Holt director of its Space Dynamics Laboratory. The appointment became effective on November 13.

Space Dynamics Laboratory Awarded Contract for Infrared Payloads

Jun 15, 2009

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.

Space Dynamics Laboratory Ships Science Instrument to Chart the Skies

May 19, 2009

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.

Space Dynamics Laboratory Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation

Mar 31, 2009

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

Agi and Space Dynamics Laboratory Form Business Partnership

Mar 30, 2009

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.

New company in valley is first spinout from Space Dynamics Laboratory

Jan 07, 2009

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.