Enterococcus Evolution In Space: Environmental Adaptations, Antibiotic Resistance, And Clinical Implications (Entero)

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 […]

Emma Hanson

Master’s Student
Atlanta, GA
Advisor: Dr. Lightsey

ELIE: Electronic Life-Detection Instrument For Enceladus/Europa

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 […]

DSRG: Deep Space Radiation Genomics

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 […]

Debris Management And Removal For Large-Scale Constellations

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 […]

DART: Double Asteroid Redirection Test  

Project Sponsor : NASA  Start Date : 11/24/2021 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Masatoshi “Toshi” Hirabayashi Project Status : Completed DART was NASA’s first planetary defense mission dedicated to demonstrating asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion through kinetic impact.   DART spacecraft successfully impacted Dimorphos, the secondary component of the near-Earth binary asteroid system (65803) […]