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 […]
Master’s Student
The Netherlands
Advisor: Dr. Gunter
PhD Student
South Korea
Advisor: Dr. Ho
Project Sponsor : DARPA DSO, Honeywell Aerospace Prime Start Date : 10/01/2023 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Álvaro Romero-Calvo Project Status : Active Our Low-Gravity Science and Technology Lab is working with Honeywell Aerospace and Soter Technology to design a self-assembling liquid mirror telescope with off-axis tilting and slewing capabilities. The effort, supported by the DARPA Zenith Program, explores […]
PhD Student
Belgium
Advisor: Dr. Christian
PhD Student
Forth Worth, TX
Advisor: Dr. Lightsey
PhD Student
Tokyo, Japan
Advisor: Dr. Hirabayashi