Articles from April 2019

What's Happening in the Miles Lab

magnetic furnace

UI space researchers forge ahead with instrument-producing furnace

UI physicists use specialized furnace to produce key piece of magnetic-field instrument
Magnetic Furnace MIles Lab

UI space researchers forge ahead with instrument-producing furnace

This furnace in the Miles Lab can bake objects to more than 2,900 degrees Fahrenheit, far hotter than lava. It's being used for a very specific purpose: to manufacture a critical space-instrument component for which there are almost no guidelines for production.