NASA Takes Satellite Project From University
From Times Wire Reports
Boston University has lost an $89-million contract with NASA to build a special satellite after the space agency concluded the school could not deliver what it had promised.
“It’s probably unprecedented,†Tim Gehringer, NASA’s mission manager for the project, told the Boston Globe.
The project, called the Explorer for Spectroscopy and Photometry of the Intergalactic Medium’s Diffuse Radiation, is to study a web of hot gases spread through the universe.
