10/17/2025
A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) experiment focused on a new way to prevent electronics from overheating flew into space Sept. 18, 2025, aboard a Blue Origin spacecraft, giving researchers led by Jamal Yagoobi a critical opportunity to advance their technology by testing it in zero-gravity and multi-gravity settings.
The uncrewed suborbital flight lasted just over 10 minutes, including slightly more than three minutes of weightlessness, and carried more than 40 scientific and research payloads. Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft blasted off and landed at a site near El Paso, Texas, while Yagoobi, the George F. Fuller Professor of Mechanical Engineering, watched a live webcast of the flight in his Multi-Scale Heat Transfer (MHT) Laboratory with students who had worked on the WPI experiment.
“Many people, including students and collaborators at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, deserve credit for working hard on this project during the years leading up to this mission,” says Yagoobi. “The results of our experiment aboard the flight confirm that our design can significantly reduce the surface temperatures of electronics in zero-gravity and much higher gravity conditions. Because of the excellent results we obtained, we are very close to commercializing our electrohydrodynamic cooling technology, as our project has reached a new level of maturity as designated by NASA’s Technology Readiness Level.”
From left, are Mana Masrouri, a PhD student, and Jamal Yagoobi as they applaud a spacecraft carrying a WPI experiment, which successfully returns to Earth.
https://www.dryingresearch.org/2025/10/17/researchers-led-by-jamal-yagoobi-send-experiment-to-space-aboard-blue-origin-spacecraft/
