OSU students build and launch a sensor into space

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Students from OSU’s Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that reached the edge of outer space.  The device recorded radiation levels at the varying altitudes – information that will be used by NASA to develop instrumentation for space flight.     
    
“This is really amazing,” said Carl Johnson, a physics graduate student who designed and constructed the device.  “Our detector actually flew to the edge of outer space and then back to ground, and the whole time it worked perfectly.”