UM prototype headed into space

OXFORD, Miss. – A device that can move liquids without physical contact sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but a prototype device is headed to the International Space Station to test its capabilities. When NASA’s resupply mission to the ISS, Cygnus NG-17, blasts off on the morning of Feb. 19 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, an acoustic tweezers device conceived and built at the University of Mississippi will be among its cargo. Likun Zhang, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and a researcher at the university’s National Center for Physical Acoustics, and Robert Lirette, a former UM doctoral student in physics and postdoctoral research associate, hope to explore the ability of the device to control fluids in the zero-gravity environment of space. (Source: University of Mississippi 02/17/22) UM Researchers Sending Sonic Experiment to Space Station - Ole Miss News