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==Programmes==
In addition to hosting facilities for the UK, RAL also operates departments to co-ordinate the UK programme of participation in major international facilities. The largest of these are the areas of [[particle physics]], and [[space science]].

In [[particle physics]] the largest international project is the [[Large Hadron Collider]] at [[CERN]], but RAL has a major role in the UK participation in several other projects such as:<ref>{{cite web | url = http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/ | date = 23 June 2005 | title = Particle Physics Department | publisher = Science and Technology Facilities Council | access-date = 2 November 2008 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081219072104/http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/ | archive-date = 19 December 2008 }}</ref>

* the [[MINOS]] – Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search,
* the [[T2K]] – to measure the third type of neutrino oscillation,
* experiments to measure the electric dipole moment of the neutron at the [[Institut Laue–Langevin]],
* [[International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment]],
* the [[UK Dark Matter Collaboration]] experiment at the Boulby Mine in Yorkshire.

In [[space science]], RAL builds components for, and tests satellites, as well as receiving, analysing and curating the data collected by those spacecraft.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sstd.rl.ac.uk/ |date=23 June 2005 |title=Space Science and Technology Department |publisher=Science and Technology Facilities Council |access-date=2 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610002830/http://www.sstd.rl.ac.uk/ |archive-date=10 June 2008 }}</ref> Satellite missions in which RAL has a significant role include:

[[File:The final ALMA front end leaves for Chile.jpg|thumb|The team at the ALMA project's European Front End Integration Centre at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK.<ref>{{cite news|title=Final ALMA Front End Delivered|url=http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann13011/|access-date=3 April 2013|newspaper=ESO}}</ref>]]

* the STEREO Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory,
* the SOHO [[Solar and Heliospheric Observatory]],
* [[Hinode (satellite)|Solar-B]] investigating the Solar Corona,
* [[Galileo (satellite navigation)|Galileo]] European satellite navigation system,
* [[MSG-2]] meteorological satellite,
* [[Venus Express]] investigating the atmosphere of Venus,
* [[TopSat]] taking high resolution pictures of the Earth,
* [[Cluster mission#Chinese .22Double Star.22 Mission: 2003|Double Star (Polar)]] investigating the interaction of the Earth and the Sun,
* [[Aura (satellite)|EOS-Aura]] monitoring the global temperature of the Earth's atmosphere,
* [[Rosetta (spacecraft)]] investigating the composition of comets,
* [[Chandrayaan-1]] mission to investigate the moon,
* [[Herschel Space Observatory]] and [[Planck (spacecraft)]] space telescope.
*[[Badr-B]], developed the CCD cameras for the satellite.