OSU researchers monitor hypersonic shockwaves as part of NASA OSIRIS-REx mission
(DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah) — As NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft completed its 1.2-billion-mile journey home and sent its sample return capsule back to Earth, a team of Oklahoma State University researchers was waiting and listening.
The group, led by Drs. Jamey Jacob and Brian Elbing, is studying and classifying different sources of infrasound — which are sounds below the threshold for human…