Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology

Clear skies forecast for Sunday evening!

Hooray! CLIC is up up up and away!!
Here is a photo of this morning's helium fill of the balloon, and a link to NASA's live tracker.
https://www.csbf.nasa.gov/map/balloon4/flight1602p.htm

CLIC is the brainchild of LoCSST scientist Sunip Mukhergee. What does it do? find out here!

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UMass Lowell Physics Professor and Director of LoCSST, Dr. Supriya Chakrabarti, is pictured with his recently received 2026 SFA Boston Chapter's Best Educator Award, which covers all of New England. Congratulations Sup! Well deserved!

Charmi Patel, UMass Lowell Physics Graduate Student and LoCSST researcher, presented "Deriving Physical Parameters of Auroral Event from Simultaneous Atomic and Molecular Emissions” poster at CEDAR 2026 Conference last week.

Dr. Sunip Mukherjee (right), UMass Lowell Research and Instrumentation Scientist, led the workshop “GLOW UP: Community-Driven maintenance and enhancement of GLobal AirglOW Model for Ionosphere-Thermosphere Science” at the CEDAR 2026 Conference with the support of Charmi Patel (Physics Graduate student, Middle) and Katelynn Greer (Research Associate, LASP, Left) as co-conveners last week.

Reminder about this exciting event this week!

Next week will be our June observatory night! It'll be a micromoon and its even called a strawberry moon because there should be the slightest red tint to it.

Come visit us to look through our 14" telescope, along with some other telescopes, and hang out!

This afternoon UMass Lowell Physics Professor Andy Rogers brought a group of interested students from community colleges for a tour of LoCSST. Here Physics Professor and LoCSST Principal Investigator, TImothy Cook, talks about our ongoing research project, PICTURE and other engineering and space missions we are involved in.

Today UMass Lowell's Dr. Paul Horton and undergraduate student, Destinee Jeanty, visited MIT's Haystack Observatory where they got to see inside the receiver cabin where all of the instrumentation is housed. While there they met with Dr. Jens Kauffmann, Astronomy Group Lead, who explained the pipeline for receiving signals from the 37m dish and digitizing them for astronomical observations.

Prof. Supriya Chakrabarti (left), Physics Professor at UMass Lowell and Director of LoCSST, hosted Ihor Protsenko (right) from Kyiv School of Economics (representing their Engineering Department), who is leading a group of student inventors at a conference in CT and reached out to visit LoCSST to speak with us about our technologies, cubesats, and possible future collaborations. Great to meet you, Ihor, and we look forward to working with you!