Category: Projects

Project Sponsor : NASA (Cryospheric Science Research Announcement, ROSES-2020) Start Date : 08/01/2023 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Brian Gunter Project Status : In progress Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA), specifically so the post-glacial rebound component, describes the response of the solid earth to variable ice loading. Using satellite gravimetry from GRACE and GRACE-FO, altimetry from ICESat-2 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Project Sponsor : NASA Start Date : 08/01/2023 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Álvaro Romero-Calvo Project Status : Active Human space exploration is presented with multiple challenges, such as the near absence of buoyancy in orbit or the reliable, efficient, and sustainable operation of life support systems. The production and management of oxygen and hydrogen are […]

Project Sponsor : NSF Start Date : 01/01/2020 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Glenn Lightsey Project Status : Subsystem Assembly and Testing Georgia Tech’s SSDL is participating in a multi-university CubeSat formation flying mission to address Geospace science questions related to the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Description The equatorial thermal anomaly (ETA) and equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) […]

Project Sponsor : NASA Faculty Investigator : Dr. Glenn Lightsey Project Status : Ongoing Georgia Tech’s SSDL is studying new methods of conducting radionavigation with minimal infrastructure at remote locations like the Moon and Mars.

Project Sponsor : NSF Start Date : 10/01/2019 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Glenn Lightsey Project Status : Integration and Testing Georgia Tech’s SSDL is participating in a multi-university CubeSat formation flying mission to image the sun in unprecedented high resolution, revealing energy release sites in the solar corona that are believe to be the source […]

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 : DARPA Start Date : 07/23/2019 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Koki Ho Project Status : Research Ongoing Develop a set of time-expanded network methods and algorithms to model and optimize the on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing mission sequences, enabling efficient space traffic management. 

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 […]