UP Student’s Experiment to Run in Int’l Space Station

William Kevin Abran

William Kevin Abran, an incoming third-year applied physics student in UP Los Baños, is set to make a mark on the International Space Station. His experiment looks at the long-term stability of dumbbell-shaped objects in microgravity, which only has two main moments of inertia. If the dumbbell shape is proven to be stable, then it could potentially be applied when designing spacecraft and other materials (See Scoutmag.ph for story).