Overview

Space Dynamics Laboratory develops satellites, sensors and mission software for national defense, space exploration and scientific research. The nonprofit research corporation is wholly owned by Utah State University and operates as a university affiliated research center sponsored by the US Space Force. Its teams design and build instruments and spacecraft, test them for flight and develop ground systems that process mission data. Work spans government research partnerships and engineering programs, with support from initial mission concepts through deployment. The laboratory's operating roots date to 1959, and it took its present form through a 1982 merger; its headquarters are in North Logan, Utah.