Project Sponsor : Breakthrough Initiatives (P.I. Sara Seager), NASA NIAC Phase I award 80NSSC22K0759 (P.I. Sara Seager) and faculty startup funds (C.E.C.) Start Date : 01/01/2021 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Christopher E. Carr Project Status : Instrument in validation; Venus Photon under development. The discovery of organic chemistry or life in the clouds of Venus, […]
Project Sponsor : NSF Start Date : 10/01/2019 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Glenn Lightsey Project Status : Integration and Testing Georgia Tech’s SSDL is participating in a multi-university CubeSat formation flying mission to image the sun in unprecedented high resolution, revealing energy release sites in the solar corona that are believe to be the source […]
Project Sponsor : DARPA Start Date : 07/23/2019 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Koki Ho Project Status : Research Ongoing Develop a set of time-expanded network methods and algorithms to model and optimize the on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing mission sequences, enabling efficient space traffic management.
Project Sponsor : NASA Start Date : 08/15/2016 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Brian Gunter Project Status : Deployed from ISS on January 26, 2022 The solar-powered TARGIT is a 3U CubeSat that houses a compact laser altimetry system capable of delivering accurate topographic data (down to the centimeter) from as far away as 10 kilometers […]
Project Sponsor : Terra Bella (formerly Skybox) University Cubesat Partnership Start Date : 08/25/2015 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Brian Gunter Project Status : Currently in orbit RANGE consisting of two 1.5 U cubesats, seeks to demonstrate an order-of-magnitude improvement in absolute orbital position knowledge compared with traditional CubeSats and inter-satellite distance measurement with mm-level precision […]
Project Sponsor : NSF Start Date : 01/01/2020 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Glenn Lightsey Project Status : Subsystem Assembly and Testing Georgia Tech’s SSDL is participating in a multi-university CubeSat formation flying mission to address Geospace science questions related to the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Description The equatorial thermal anomaly (ETA) and equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) […]
Project Sponsor : Utah State University Space Dynamics Lab (SDL) Faculty Investigator : Dr. Glenn Lightsey Project Status : Complete SSDL is designing and building six additively manufactured cold gas propulsion systems for a formation of small satellites that will launch into a geocentric supersynchronous orbit in 2023. The propulsion systems will be used for […]
Project Sponsor : NASA Faculty Investigator : Dr. Glenn Lightsey Project Status : Ongoing Georgia Tech’s SSDL is studying new methods of conducting radionavigation with minimal infrastructure at remote locations like the Moon and Mars.
Project Sponsor : NASA Faculty Investigator : Dr. Glenn Lightsey Project Status : Complete Working with our partners at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Jet Propulsion Lab, Georgia Tech’s SSDL is designing and building a new CubeSat green propellant propulsion system to perform orbit insertion for NASA’s Lunar Flashlight which will be deployed on […]
Project Sponsor : NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Start Date : 08/01/2023 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Glenn Lightsey Project Status : Complete Lunar Flashlight is a 6U technology demonstration mission that was launched with the aim of mapping ice in permanently shadowed regions around the lunar south pole. Lunar Flashlight is a JPL 6U CubeSat mission […]