{"id":2450,"date":"2021-04-22T08:48:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T12:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2021-04-22T08:48:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T12:48:45","slug":"bu-made-telescope-going-to-the-moon-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/2021\/04\/22\/bu-made-telescope-going-to-the-moon-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"BU-Made Telescope Going to the Moon in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CSP&#8217;s Assistant Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/profiles\/brian-walsh\/\">Brian Walsh<\/a>&#8216;s LEXI Telescope was highlighted:<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsiveVideo responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LEXI is Going to the Moon! (In 2023)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Riz7VSZ_Zyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>To prepare for the next giant leap in space exploration\u2014traveling to Mars\u2014the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/specials\/artemis\/\">NASA Artemis<\/a>\u00a0program 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.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager (<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lexi\">LEXI<\/a>) is being designed and built in a lab on Cummington Street by a team of engineers led by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/brian-walsh-ph-d\/\">Brian Walsh<\/a>, a BU College of Engineering assistant professor of mechanical engineering. In 2023, LEXI will be hitching a ride on Firefly Aerospace\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firefly.com\/lunar-lander\/\">Blue\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/firefly.com\/lunar-lander\/\">Ghost\u00a0lunar lander<\/a>, alongside nine other science and technology payloads.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the rest of the Article here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"u25jjBkPaU\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/bu-made-telescope-is-going-to-the-moon-in-2023\/\">BU-Made Telescope Going to the Moon in 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;BU-Made Telescope Going to the Moon in 2023&#8221; &#8212; Boston University\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/bu-made-telescope-is-going-to-the-moon-in-2023\/embed\/#?secret=u25jjBkPaU\" data-secret=\"u25jjBkPaU\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSP&#8217;s Assistant Professor Brian Walsh&#8217;s LEXI Telescope was highlighted: To prepare for the next giant leap in space exploration\u2014traveling to Mars\u2014the\u00a0NASA Artemis\u00a0program 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.\u00a0 The Lunar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11696,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}