Month: January 2024

Lunar Flashlight Propulsion System

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 […]

Lunar Flashlight Operations

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 […]

Lunar Dust Mitigation

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 […]

Low-Gravity Water Electrolysis

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 […]