The team behind the satellite’s development has been led by Brian Walsh, a BU College of Engineering professor of mechanical engineering, and supported by a $2.4 million, four-year NASA grant. Known as CuPID, which stands for Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector, the satellite is designed to capture images that will help scientists learn more about the way energy from the sun is transferred into the near-Earth space environment. Over the next five to six years in orbit, about 340 miles above our planet’s surface, the shoebox-size satellite containing an X-ray telescope will capture images of where the magnetic fields of the Earth and the sun meet in space. 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.
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