Month: January 2024

InSitu: Investigating the Rate of Potential Biological in Situ Gas Production of CO and CH4 in Arctic Ice

Project Sponsor : Supported by NSF Collaborative award 2139293 to Chellman (DRI, lead institution) and Carr (Georgia Tech). Start Date : 03/2022 Faculty Investigator : Nathan J. Chellman (DRI, PI); Prof. Christopher E. Carr (Co-PI, Georgia Tech) Project Status : Planning for fieldwork Collaborators: Joe McConnell (DRI), Edward J. Brook (Oregon State), Rachel A. Moore […]

GT-1

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 […]

Green Propellant Dual Mode (GPDM)

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 […]

ExoSalt: Biosignature Preservation in Sulfate-Dominated Hypersaline Environments

Project Sponsor : Supported by NASA Exobiology awards 80NSSC18K1088 and 80NSSC20K0849 (Pontefract). Start Date : 01/2021 Faculty Investigator : Alexandra Pontefract (Georgetown/APL); Prof. Christopher E. Carr (Co-I) Project Status : Awaiting transfer of award Team: Alexandra Pontefract (PI), Magdalena Osburn (Co-I), Chris Carr (Co-I), Mitchell Barklage (Collaborator), Jacob Buffo (Collaborator), Shuhei Ono (Collaborator), Virginia Walker […]

ExoMethane: Genome-informed Habitability, Biosignature Potential, and Limit of Methane Production in Planetary Environments

Project Sponsor : NASA Exobiology award # 80NSSC22K0974 to C.E.C. (PI) and R.A.M. (Science PI). Start Date : 07/2022 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Christopher E. Carr (PI), Dr. Rachel A. Moore (Science PI) Project Status : Active Collaborators: Douglas Bartlett (Co-I, UCSD), Miguel Desmarais (Graduate Student, UCSD), and Jeff Bowman (Collaborator, UCSD) Background: Subsurface environments […]