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Skyward Bound

The successful launch of Icarus, a liquid-fueled rocket designed and built by BU students. More

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ENG Faculty and Students Power BU to the Moon

At 2 am on a Sunday in March 2025, a dozen scientists were gathered in a College of Engineering lab at Boston University in a tense, nail-biting silence. Almost 240,000 miles away, a shiny, golden spacecraft was slowly dropping toward the moon’s surface after traveling through space for 40 days. Mounted on top was a specially designed telescope, built at BU and known as LEXI, sent to capture views of Earth’s protective magnetic field that have never been seen before. More

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The Appeal of a Peel

McDaniel seeks to replicate the pomelo fruit’s energy absorption mechanisms, on a larger scale. More