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 : 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 : 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 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 : 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 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 […]
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 : 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 : 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 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 […]