https://spacewatch.global/tag/purdue-university/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:15:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/purdue-university/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2025/09/purdue-university-to-conduct-microgravity-research-aboard-virgin-galactic-suborbital-mission/ Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=67944 Purdue University is collaborating with Virgin Galactic for a research and learning mission aboard a Virgin Galactic suborbital spaceflight with an all-Boilermaker crew. The flight, dubbed Purdue 1, will tentatively lift off in 2027. Purdue researchers and students will personally conduct and oversee experiments in microgravity. The onboard experiments will subsequently explore how fluids behave in zero gravity]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/05/virgin-galactic-announce-launch-window-for-galactic-07/ Mon, 06 May 2024 06:00:43 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=55037 Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. has announced the 'Galactic 07' flight window will open on Saturday, June 8, 2024. This will be the Company’s second spaceflight this year and twelfth to date. The Company will once again convert its spaceship into a suborbital science lab, with VSS Unity carrying an Axiom Space affiliated researcher astronaut who will conduct multiple human-tended experiments.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/09/dr-mark-j-lewis-appointed-to-voyager-space-advisory-board/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 06:00:33 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=51369 Dr. Mark J Lewis, a researcher, professor, and former deputy undersecretary of defence, has joined Voyager advisory board, Voyager Space announced. Dr. Lewis taught at the University of Maryland for 25 years, conducting basic and applied research in hypersonic aerodynamics, advanced propulsion and space vehicle design and optimization.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/08/space-mission-to-test-purdue-developed-drag-sail-planned/ Wed, 26 Aug 2020 05:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=25481&preview=true&preview_id=25481 A rocket is going up into space with a drag sail. The goal? For the drag sail to bring the rocket back to Earth, preventing it from becoming like the thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth’s lower orbit.]]>