Majd Mayyasi (GRS’09,’13), a BU Center for Space Physics senior research scientist, discusses the future of civilian space travel and how it would impact the study of space with BU Today editor Doug Most. She also shares her experience training for suborbital flight as part of an inaugural program for scientists. Transcript Dana Ferrante: This is Question of the Week, […]
CSP’s Assistant Professor Brian Walsh’s CuPID cubesat was highlighted by NASA: When you help build a satellite the size of a shoebox, you learn pretty much everything about it, says Emil Atz, a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. You learn how to write a proposal to fund it, how to place the […]
CSP’s Assistant Professor Brian Walsh’s LEXI Telescope was highlighted: To prepare for the next giant leap in space exploration—traveling to Mars—the NASA Artemis program is planning to send humans back to the moon by 2024. But first, Artemis scientists are sending up a bunch of science projects, and a BU telescope is one of them. The Lunar […]
In a recent article from NYTimes, CSP’s Senior Research Scientist Jeffrey Baumgardner discusses the comet-like tail of the Moon. An animation shows how sodium atoms ejected from the lunar surface are affected by the moon’s orbit around planet Earth. Video by James O’Donoghue/@PhysicsJ, based on simulations by Jody K. Wilson. Carl Sagan once said that […]