A Salon article on NASA’s proposed space debris cleaning efforts, including a new report suggesting that lasers could be used to zap away small pieces of debris, quotes John Crassidis, Moog Professor of Innovation in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
John Crassidis, Moog Professor of Innovation in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, spoke to WGRZ-TV about how Starlink satellites orbiting Earth have been seen in the greater Buffalo area.
John Crassidis spoke to The Houston Chronicle about how, for the first time in 60 years of human spaceflight, a replacement spacecraft is being launched to bring crew members home after the Russian Soyuz capsule that carried them into space was damaged by a micrometeoroid roughly 1 millimeter in diameter.
The Hoops News quoted John Crassidis, SUNY Distinguished Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the Center for Space Cyber Strategy and Cyber Security, in a story about a piece of space junk that is going to crash into the moon.
New Scientist reports that constellations of satellites that reflect sunlight to Earth could be used for space advertising at a cost of $65 million per mission.
Anoop Kiran, a recent aerospace engineering graduate from the University at Buffalo Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was named one of Aviation Week’s 20 Twenties for 2022.