How loud was the world’s most powerful rocket that blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center last November? BYU professor of Physics and Astronomy Kent Gee can tell you: about 136-137 dB...nearly a mile away from the launch! Gee, along with fellow professor Grant Hart, recently led a team of undergraduate and graduate students to the Florida launch site to take acoustical measurements of NASA’s Artemis I. For Gee, it was a career-defining experience. For the students, it was the opportunity of a

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BYU’s Compliant Mechanisms Research lab, inspired by the ancient art of origami, is building a foldable, compact design that could help launch satellite systems to space in a rocket. After five years of research, a team led by professors Larry Howell and Spencer Magleby has created a foldable antenna and telescope than can deploy off space rockets and permanently open to enhance satellite systems. “The product is not only the antenna; to me, the product is the students, and the learning that the