Kentucky Space Wants Financial Stardust

There have been eight graduates and another 49 now in the program, said Dr. Ben Malphrus, professor of space science and chairman of the MSU Earth and Space Science Department. Since 2009, MSU's faculty includes the highly regarded Dr. Bob Twiggs, who during more than 20 years at Stanford Unive...

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Published inThe Lane Report Vol. 27; no. 12; p. 26
Main Author Green, Mark
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lexington Lane Communications Group, Inc 01.12.2012
Subjects
Aerospace medicine
Colleges & universities
Cosmic rays
Engineering firms
Engineers
Entrepreneurs
Gamma rays
Innovations
Medical research
Multinational space ventures
Nonprofit organizations
Satellites
Science
Smartphones
Space stations
Students
Zinc telluride
United States > US
Kentucky
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ISSN1063-925X

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Summary:There have been eight graduates and another 49 now in the program, said Dr. Ben Malphrus, professor of space science and chairman of the MSU Earth and Space Science Department. Since 2009, MSU's faculty includes the highly regarded Dr. Bob Twiggs, who during more than 20 years at Stanford University developed the CubeSat - a 10-centimeter square satellite format that NASA initially scoffed at as absurdly small but which now is an international standard. Students and faculty members built the now-orbiting CXBN - Cosmic X-Ray Background Noise - satellite at MSU's Space Science Center, except for its small cosmic ray detector, which required an exotic cadmium zinc telluride alloy. Kentucky Space issued a request for proposals for microgravity medical research and selected 12 for development into white papers; subjects include cystic fibrosis, diabetes, cancer and regenerative medicine.
ISSN:1063-925X