LEXI is Going to the Moon! (In 2023)

By: dhahn () in BU Today

Boston University’s LEXI telescope is going to the moon! (But not until 2023.) Part [...]NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, LEXI (the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager) will hitch a ride on Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, alongside nine other science and technology payloads. Once there, LEXI will take one-of-a-kind images of the Earth’s magnetic fields and how they interact with the solar wind, providing critical insights into the plasma environment surrounding our planet.

Tags: nasa, physics, eng, space, mechanical engineering, meche, brian walsh, x-ray

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