Project Sponsor : Internal Research and Development Start Date : 08/12/2019 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Glenn Lightsey Project Status : Deployed from ISS on Feb 3, 2022 GT-1 is a 1.14 kg 1U CubeSat with experimental deployable solar panels and a deployable UHF radio antenna. The GT-1 mission demonstrates a rapid cradle-to-grave lifecycle of a […]
Project Sponsor : NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Start Date : 08/01/2023 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Glenn Lightsey Project Status : Design phase Green Propellant Dual Mode (GPDM) is an upcoming technology demonstration mission led by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center which aims to fly for the first time a satellite using a single liquid […]
Project Sponsor : NASA Space Biology Award # 80NSSC21K0234 to C.E.C Start Date : 11/01/2020 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Christopher E. Carr Project Status : Preparing for flight readiness review(s) Enterococci are gram-positive bacteria that originated when our ancient animal ancestors emerged from the oceans to live on land, and brought their gut flora with […]
Project Sponsor : NASA PICASSO program and MIT Space Exploration Initiative Start Date : 01/01/2022 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Christopher E. Carr Project Status : Low-technology readiness instrument under development We are working to develop the ELIE instrument, capable of detecting prebiotic, ancient, or extant life, and distinguishing forward contamination, through detection of two universal […]
Project Sponsor : Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Start Date : 09/17/2019 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Koki Ho Project Status : Research Ongoing Develop an efficient debris management strategy for large-scale constellations, including analyzing the impacts of debris management for large-scale constellations and their relevance to the orbit selection, developing a constellation design process with consideration of debris management and active de-orbit […]
Project Sponsor : Supported by NASA PICASSO award 80NSSC20K1092 to L.B. Start Date : 01/01/2021 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Christopher E. Carr Project Status : Early stage instrument development Background: Estimated energetic limits for life in Ocean Worlds such as Enceladus and Europa suggest that many current life detection technologies will require pre-concentration of ice […]
Project Sponsor : Supported by MIT Space Exploration Initiative via NASA Award 80NSSC21M0012 to Maria T. Zuber and faculty startup funds from the Georgia Institute of Technology to C.E.C. Start Date : 01/01/2021 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Christopher E. Carr Project Status : Functional and EMI testing, science validation testing & pre-launch preparations. BioX2 (Biological […]