Month: January 2024

Project Sponsor : NASA Space Biology Award # 80NSSC21K0234 to C.E.C Start Date : 11/01/2020 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Christopher E. Carr Project Status : Preparing for flight readiness review(s) Enterococci are gram-positive bacteria that originated when our ancient animal ancestors emerged from the oceans to live on land, and brought their gut flora with […]

Project Sponsor : NASA PICASSO program and MIT Space Exploration Initiative Start Date : 01/01/2022 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Christopher E. Carr Project Status : Low-technology readiness instrument under development We are working to develop the ELIE instrument, capable of detecting prebiotic, ancient, or extant life, and distinguishing forward contamination, through detection of two universal […]

Project Sponsor : NASA award # 80NSSC19K0708 to Luis Zea/CU Boulder. Start Date : 05/2019 Faculty Investigator : Luis Zea (PI), University of Colorado, Boulder, and Corey Nislow (UBC, Co-PI); Prof. Christopher E. Carr (Collaborator) Project Status : Waiting for Artemis I launch! Launch Provider: NASA Collaborators: See CU Boulder DSRG website for extended team […]

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 : Supported by NASA PICASSO award 80NSSC20K1092 to L.B. Start Date : 01/01/2021 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Christopher E. Carr Project Status : Early stage instrument development Background: Estimated energetic limits for life in Ocean Worlds such as Enceladus and Europa suggest that many current life detection technologies will require pre-concentration of ice […]