The SPL remit includes not only the flight of chipsats, cubesats and cubelabs and other larger experiments, payloads and facilities, but also precursor activities such as ground test and microgravity droptower and parabolic flight precursors.
Environments for these payloads include terrestrial space analogs, Earth orbit, cis-lunar space, deep space and planetary/lunar surfaces.
Interdisciplinary in approach, SPL activities and payloads address a wide variety of areas such as education, the sciences, engineering, artistic/cultural engagement with space, and commercial undertakings.