Published November 11, 2019
A story on MSN featured UB’s CRASH lab, which is working with NASA to design a new spacecraft that would fly around Venus and take measurements of its harsh atmosphere that includes incredibly hot temperatures, thick clouds of sulfuric acid and volcanoes.
The spacecraft, nicknamed BREEZE, “is being developed for atmospheric sampling at and above the 50 km altitude,” says Javid Bayandor, lab director and associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. He added that the system will “sample lower altitudes toward the end of its mission.”
The CRASH lab is an acronym for University of Crashworthiness for Aerospace Structures and Hybrids lab.
