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.
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Gagandeep Anand earned a master's degree in astronomy from Boston University.
Janet Petro holds a master of science degree in business administration from Boston University’s Metropolitan College.
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.
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.
The 2020-06-11 Electron launch includes the ANDESITE cubesat built by students at Boston University whose launch was arranged by NASA.
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.
About 150 Boston University students helped design, develop, and build the ANDESITE mission.
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.
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.