Laboratory for Space Environment Exploration (LSEE) is devoted to developing space-based techniques and instrumentation for space environment and its effects.  Studies in satellites and spacecrafts are served for spacecraft safety, space physics, space weather forecast, meteorology and climate. LSEE has undertaken majorities of missions to space environment exploration, and become a very important base for space-based exploration in China.

In 1992, CSSAR optimized resources in space environment exploration to satisfy the demand of the manned spacecraft mission, and founded LSEE. Since then, research area of the laboratory has reached to the whole solar-terrestrial connected system and its effects on human space activities, including measuring solar EUV/x-ray, different energy particles and plasma, neutral atmosphere, radiation dose, single particle effect, spacecraft surface charging and space debris. In addition, scintillation electromagnetic pulse in high space and experimental research in space plasma are also included.

In the past years, LSEE has successfully developed almost 20 kinds of instrument for space exploration, such as solar x-ray detector, high energy particle detector, atmospheric density monitor, etc. More than 10 kinds have been building, for example, GPS occultation detector and solar EUV/x-ray imaging telescope.

LSEE has undertaken the missions in space environment and related research of ShenZhou manned spacecrafts, FengYun satellites, ShiJian satellites, Double Star, lunar project, Earth Resource and military satellites. In addition, programs funded by 863 Hi-tech Plan and National Natural Science Foundation.

So far, more than 20 spacecrafts have successfully operated with measurement instruments developed by LSEE, and many scientific data have been obtained. These on-orbit spacecrafts have constituted a primary space-based network monitoring space environment in China. Warnings against space environment written by LSEE are provided for many specific users, and act as important warrants to preventing spacecraft or satellites from strong solar proton events.

LSEE has ever collaborated with many countries and organizations from world wide, such as USA, ESA, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Canada, etc. International activities will be enhanced in developing new instruments and building scientific satellite missions. 

Among the total 106 staffs, 57 are in-position scientists or engineers, and 49 are mobile scientists, workers and students. The laboratory occupies area of approximately 800 m2. In the laboratory, there are two experimental devices for atmospheric and space plasma instruments respectively.

LSEE can offer doctoral degree and master degree for outstanding students in space physics. There are 2 supervisors for Sc.D. students and 13 for M.S. students. More than 30 students have graduated from LSEE and obtained their perfect positions in universities of various hi-tech enterprises and companies at home or abroad.

Since the foundation, many important honors have been awarded to the laboratory, one of which for national second-class, four for ministry/provincial first-class, two for second-class, one for third-class. In addition, the laboratory possesses 14 national invention patents in science and technique.