Innovation hub for new aviation, space technology announced with Berkeley Space Center

The Berkeley Space Center is a newly announced innovation hub which will encourage collaborations among UC Berkeley faculty and students, private companies, NASA scientists and engineers and Silicon Valley's tech industry. The center will accommodate up to 1.4 million square feet of research space on 36 acres of land at NASA Ames' Moffett Field in Mountain View, leased from NASA.

To accomplish this the university is teaming up with NASA's Ames Research Center and developer SKS Partners to create research space for companies interested in collaborating with UC Berkeley and NASA scientists and engineers to generate futuristic innovations in aviation, space exploration and how we live and work in space.

According to a news release from the university, the new buildings, some of which could be ready for move-in as early as 2027, will house not only state-of-the-art research and development laboratories for companies and UC Berkeley researchers, but also classrooms for UC Berkeley students. Read more about the exciting space center project here.

"We're hoping to create an ecosystem where Berkeley talent can collaborate with the private sector and co-locate their research and development teams. And since we will be close to NASA talent and technology in the heart of Silicon Valley, we hope to leverage that to form future partnerships." - Brandon Torres, NASA Ames

"We would like to create industry consortia to support research clusters focused around themes that are key to our objectives, in particular aviation of the future, resiliency in extreme environments, space bioprocess engineering, remote sensing and data science and computing." - Alexandre Bayen, UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and associate provost for Moffett Field program development.