CU Boulder space research center marks 100th launch into orbit

CU Boulder space research center marks 100th launch into orbit

A University of Colorado Boulder research center focused on studying Earth life in space marked its 100th launch into orbit on Monday. CU Boulder’s BioServe Space Technologies research center, founded in 1987, studies life sciences in space, examining everything from microorganisms to fruit flies to humans. “It’s a very exciting time for us, it’s an enormous milestone to have reached through our history,” said Louis Stodieck, BioServe chief scie…

Harnessing RP2040 for microgravity research in zero-g parabolic flight #piday

Via Raspberrypi.com Last year, engineer Christian Wenzel-Benner and researcher Dr. Michaela Dümmer from Prof. Dr. Christoph Forreiter‘s research group exploring plant behaviour in microgravity got in touch. The team’s experiments demand a high degree of automation, actuation, and sensing, and they had found RP2040 to be a low-cost solution ideally suited to the task. They wondered if we’d be interested in learning more; naturally, we were! Below…