This research is exciting, and I think the students will enjoy it. Wu said the researchers hope that the opportunity to work on this project will spur the students to go on to graduate school and get their doctorates and become researchers and professors. Wu said the grant allows for 10 to 12 students a year to work alongside CSUN and JPL scientists as they try to prevent the degradation of space equipment. Wu explained that the research is not focusing on the spacecraft as a whole, but rather the individual components that are essential to its operation, such as computers. But in space they are exposed to extreme conditions, such as extremely harsh heat and cold.
Some space missions are far away and take years.
What's not a problem on earth, can be on a space mission. We need to understand what might happen so we can prevent it. Founded in 1958, it is the only four-year university in the San Fernando Valley.