LSU physicist, start-up's technology, pave way for future of space travel.  As the modern space race continues, LSU physicist Jeffrey Chancellor has founded a company aiming to develop technologies to be used by both commercial and government space missions. The company, Atlantis Industries, holds three patents designed to make space travel safer and easier, according to Chancellor. Atlantis was founded in 2021. 

It costs $1,000 per gram to go to space. An LSU professor wants to make that cheaper. An LSU physics professor has created a start-up business that could drastically reduce the costs of launching objects, by using artificial intelligence to optimize the amount of shielding needed on satellites and spacecraft. It costs about $1,000 per gram to launch an object into space, said Jeffery Chancellor, an assistant professor of physics and founder of Atlantis Industries. The technology developed by Chancellor enables companies to reduce the amount of shielding by upward of 25%.

SpaceX was the first private company to send astronauts into orbit last year. Studying the impact of radiation on these space travelers and their equipment, several students The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. The Program operates in over 160 countries worldwide.

SpaceX was the first private company to send astronauts into orbit last year. Studying the impact of radiation on these space travelers and their equipment, several students enrolled in the LSU-Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Dr. Charles M. Smith Medical and Health Physics Program saw a connection between radiation exposure in astronauts traveling beyond the Earth’s protective magnetic field and cancer patients. One of the graduate students in the SparTAN Physics Lab investigating this connection is Nousha Afshari

Fly me to the moon: LSU lands on the moon with the Tiger Eye 1 radiation detection device. The imagination of a team of LSU students paid off last month when, thanks to the leadership of assistant professor Jeffery Chancellor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, NASA selected its Tiger Eye 1 radiation detection device for the manifest of its Intuitive Machines 1 mission, part of an initiative to bring technology to the lunar surface.

LSU to Conquer Moon, Possibly Entire Galaxy. Folks I have no other way to say this: LSU is going to space.

The Office of Research and Economic Development announced Tuesday that LSU will be the first university ON PLANET EARTH to put technology on the Moon. Next year the United States will be going back to the Moon for the first time since 1972 and technology built by five LSU students will be making the journey. 

LSU students to send radiation detection device to the Moon. A radiation detection device developed in part by five LSU students will be sent to the Moon next year as part of the IM-1 lunar mission. IM-1 stands for Intuitive Machines, a Houston-based company that is contracted by NASA to supply payloads for two upcoming trips to the Moon.

As the U.S. lands on the Moon next year, for the first time since 1972 and the Apollo program, LSU technology built by students in close collaboration with industry partners will report back from the lunar surface. Undergraduate students in five different LSU colleges and schools are leading the mission, which will make future space travel safer for astronauts and equipment. Meet the team behind Tiger Eye 1.

There are several technological barriers that lie ahead of humankind’s ability to send astronauts to Mars and eventually colonize the red planet. 

One of those barriers is space radiation and the threat it poses to astronauts during spaceflight. While Earth’s magnetic field protects us from most radiation, astronauts may be at significant risk for radiation sickness and increased lifetime risk for cancer, central nervous system effects and degenerative diseases,according to NASA.

With an award from the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine, a partner to the NASA Human Research Program, Sharon Gerecht will lead a team that will study the effects of space radiation on vascular, cardiac and neurovascular tissues. They will use applicable tissue and organ models, and develop potential countermeasures to offset the negative effects of space radiation on these tissues.