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Boston University (BU) is a private research university involved in space science and related technologies through its Center for Space Physics (CSP) and various departments. BU conducts research into space, physics, instrumentation, and planetary atmospheres, often in collaboration with NASA. The university is also home to the SHIELD NASA DRIVE Science Center, which focuses on understanding the heliosphere. Associated keywords: space research, heliophysics, space instrumentation, NASA partnerships, space physics.

academicFounded 1873
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
www.bu.edu/cas/
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Gagandeep Anand earned a master's degree in astronomy from Boston University.

GovernanceValue 1.0May 4, 2026Gagandeep Anand vince premio giovane scienziato Maryland 2026

Janet Petro holds a master of science degree in business administration from Boston University’s Metropolitan College.

GovernanceValue 1.2May 3, 2026NASA Kennedy Space Center director Janet Petro to retire

Team 7 from Boston University won the 2022 James Barrowman Award for Flight Dynamics with a difference of 0.14% (4.27 m) from their predicted apogee.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.5Jul 17, 2022Sierra Space announces winners for the 2022 Spaceport America Cup

An international team led by Airbus Defence and Space (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and including Fraunhofer IFAM (Dresden, Germany), Boston University (Massachusetts, USA), and Abengoa Innovación (Seville, Spain) demonstrated oxygen and metals production from simulated lunar regolith using the ROXY process.

CapabilityValue 4.0Oct 27, 2020Oxygen From Lunar Dust? Int’l Team Says Such Could Occur

The 2020-06-11 Electron launch includes the ANDESITE cubesat built by students at Boston University whose launch was arranged by NASA.

GeneralRelationshipsValue 4.0May 28, 2020Rocket Lab to resume launches in June

The Rocket Lab mission “Don’t Stop Me Now” will place into orbit ANDESITE, a cubesat built by Boston University and whose launch is being provided by NASA.

PlanCapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Mar 20, 2020Rocket Lab launch preparations continue despite coronavirus travel restrictions

About 150 Boston University students helped design, develop, and build the ANDESITE mission.

CapabilityValue 1.8Mar 19, 2020Students integrate cubesat before coronavirus shuts school

The Electron mission manifest scheduled for no earlier than 2020-03-27 will carry cubesats built by Boston University and the University of New South Wales in Australia.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Mar 10, 2020Small launch companies don’t foresee price war

TriSept is helping to integrate Ad-Hoc Network Demonstration for Extended Satellite-Based Inquiry and Other Team Endeavors, a cubesat developed by Boston University’s Center for Space Physics, scheduled to launch in early 2020 on a Rocket Lab Electron.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Dec 2, 2019NASA taps TriSept for ongoing cubesat launch support
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