Brown Space Engineering News Today

NASA to launch new Brown student satellite NASA has agreed to provide space on a future rocket launch for a new satellite designed and built by Brown University students to test the performance of next-generation solar cells in space. Brown students will design and build PVDX, a small satellite that will test cutting edge solar technology in space. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown is headed back to space. This month, NASA announced that a small satellite to be designed and built...

With NASA eyeing return to the Moon, Brown students helping the agency deal with pesky lunar dust With a new grant from NASA, a team of Brown and RISD students is developing a system that may help protect spacesuits from sticky and highly abrasive lunar dust. Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan was covered in sticky dust after surface operations on the Moon. Credit: NASA PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — As NASA gears up for its Artemis program and the return of humans to Moon, the agenc...

14,000 loops around the Earth later, Brown student satellite ends its mission The systems on the student-designed and -built EQUiSat functioned nearly flawlessly for over two years in the harshness of space before reentering Earth’s atmosphere on Dec. 26. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — After performing valiantly for two-and-a-half years in the extreme environment of low Earth orbit, a small satellite designed and built by Brown University undergraduates re-entered the atmosphere on ...