BU Societal Engineers Pitching at Blue Skies
For the second year in a row, two of the eight finalist teams at the annual NASA Blue Skies collegiate competition come from Boston University.
A Future Flying Free of Fossil Fuels
A team of just-graduated BU engineers won a NASA competition with a proposal to make airplanes run on aluminum powder combustion.
Delivery Drones and Rotor-Powered Rideshares Sound Great—and Noisy
Combining expertise in mechanical engineering, fluid mechanics, and urban hydrology, BU researchers with NASA funding will lead a multimillion-dollar, multi-institution project to help develop quieter vertical lift air vehicles
Live from Space, BU Alum and Astronaut Bob Hines Talks Gravity, Lasagna, NASA Careers
BU Alum Robert Hines Is on a Mission—to the International Space Station
NASA pilot is one of four crew members scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center By Steve Holt NASA is about to send a Terrier into space. Astronaut Robert Hines will pilot NASA’s SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, where the crew of four will study microgravity—the condition in which people or […]
Tiny Satellite Will Take Widest Ever Images of Earth’s and the Sun’s Magnetic Fields Colliding
Images captured by the probe, developed by BU engineers, could reveal new insights into radiation that impacts satellites, astronauts By Kat J. McAlpine A first-of-its-kind satellite, designed and built by Boston University engineers, on Monday morning hitched a ride aboard a NASA rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Over the next five […]
To The Moon, to Learn About Disruption from the Sun
By Patrick L. Kennedy In 2023, a device developed at ENG will ride a rocket into space and land on the moon, where it will snap the first-ever X-ray images of solar wind slamming into the Earth’s magnetosphere. The experiment just might help prevent a civilization-crippling communications blackout someday. The Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager […]
ECE PhD Student Receives Prestigious NASA Fellowship
Nithin Sivadas Earns NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) In 2017, PhD Student Nithin Sivadas (ECE ‘19) was awarded the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in recognition of contributions to the field of Heliophysics. Sivadas feels extremely humbled to have been awarded the fellowship, “this means that NASA’s Heliophysics […]