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Boston University

US
academicFounded 1873
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
www.bu.edu/cas/
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The research involved collaborators from institutions including the University of Bologna, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech, the University of Arizona, UC Berkeley, the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, the University of Zurich, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Boston University.

Mentioned as: Boston UniversityTechnical ProductFeb 7, 2026Jupiter size refined by new radio mapping

Boston University won the 2024 SmallSat Alliance Collegiate Space Competition.

Mentioned as: Boston UniversityNarrative GeneralMay 21, 2024Boston University wins Collegiate Space Competition

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.

Mentioned as: Boston UniversityNarrative GeneralJul 17, 2022Sierra Space announces winners for the 2022 Spaceport America Cup

Fiaschetti and Briggs designed rocket engines at Boston University and spent five months building a rocket engine using woodworking tools.

Mentioned as: Boston UniversityNarrative GeneralNov 16, 2021Startup raises $10 million to develop ‘return vehicle’ for space cargo

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.

Mentioned as: Boston UniversityTechnical ProductOct 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.

Mentioned as: Boston UniversityOrg RelationshipMay 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.

Mentioned as: Boston UniversityTechnical ProductMar 20, 2020Rocket Lab launch preparations continue despite coronavirus travel restrictions

Boston University canceled in-person classes and gatherings on 2020-03-17 due to COVID-19.

Mentioned as: boston universityNarrative GeneralMar 19, 2020Students integrate cubesat before coronavirus shuts school

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

Mentioned as: Boston UniversityNarrative GeneralMar 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.

Mentioned as: Boston UniversityOrg RelationshipMar 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.

Mentioned as: Boston UniversityOrg RelationshipDec 2, 2019NASA taps TriSept for ongoing cubesat launch support