NASA soon will launch a mission with a big name and an even bigger purpose in which students from the University of Colorado's Boulder campus will play a key role.
The $1.1 billion Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, will study more deeply how the magnetic fields surrounding Earth disconnect and reconnect, and the commands powering its science instruments will be beamed to space by student employees of CU's Laboratory for Atmospheric Space Physics, or LASP. Continue reading the article here.