Project Sponsor : ESA Start Date : 01/01/2023 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Álvaro Romero-Calvo Project Status : Active Photoelectrochemical devices integrate the processes of light absorption, charge separation, andcatalysis for chemical synthesis. The monolithic design and sustainable operation are interesting for space applications, where weight and volume constraints predominate. However, hindered gas bubble desorption in […]
Project Sponsor : NASA Start Date : 08/01/2023 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Álvaro Romero-Calvo Project Status : Active Lunar dust poses a major operational hazard to human operations on the surface of the Moon, and to the support systems, equipment, and instrumentation needed to sustain long-term lunar missions. Natural dust lofting and anthropogenic activities can […]
Project Sponsor : NASA Start Date : 08/01/2023 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Álvaro Romero-Calvo Project Status : Active Human space exploration is presented with multiple challenges, such as the near absence of buoyancy in orbit or the reliable, efficient, and sustainable operation of life support systems. The production and management of oxygen and hydrogen are […]
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 : 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 : 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 […]