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 […]
Year: 2024
Emma Johnson
Master’s Student
Woodbridge, VA
Advisor: Dr. Carr
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 […]
Dyllon Preston
Master’s Student
New York, USA
Advisor: Dr. Hirabayashi
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 […]
Dev Gujarathi
Master’s Student
Boston, MA
Advisor: Dr. Lightsey
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) […]
Dario Tscholl
PhD Student
Switzerland
Advisor: Dr. Gunter