Board of Visitors - 2017 Spring Meeting Materials

Welcome & Introductions Honorable Steve C. Jones Judge, U.S. Northern District of Georgia Secretary, UGA Foundation Board of Trustees

Greetings from the University of Georgia Pam Whitten Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost University of Georgia

Invocation & Lunch Honorable Tim Echols Vice-Chair, Georgia Public Service Commissioner, District 2 Class of 2016, Board Member

UGA’s Emerging Space Program Caleb Adams Program Manager Small Satellite Research Laboratory Fourth-year Student, Computer Science University of Georgia

Megan Le Corre Mechanical Team Lead Small Satellite Research Laboratory Fifth-year Student, Mech. Engineering University of Georgia

David L. Cotten Assistant Research Scientist Center for Geospatial Research University of Georgia

Roger Hunter Associate Director Programs and Projects NASA Ames Research Center

David Lee Vice President Vice President for Research University of Georgia

J. Marshall Shepherd Director, Atmospheric Sciences Program University of Georgia

Announcements & Closing Remarks Honorable Steve C. Jones Judge, U.S. Northern District of Georgia Secretary, UGA Foundation Board of Trustees

Caleb Adams is a fourth-year computer science major at UGA and the program manager of the Small Satellite Research Laboratory (SSRL). Adams took the first steps in creating UGA's SSRL after he, and three friends, began to design a “glorified Sputnik” to send to space. While seeking advice from UGA faculty a mutual goal was realized and SSRL was born. Adams led the first team from UGA to win a national MLH Hackathon by building a 3Dprinted, remote-operated telescope. Adams was a beta tester for Google Glass and also spoke at TEDx UGA about the future of small satellites and citizen science.

Megan Le Corre is a fifth-year mechanical engineering student with minors in physics and astronomy. Le Corre leads the SSRL’s mechanical team, eight members who are designing, modeling and testing the structural aspects of the satellites. Her research specifically focuses on the thermal and vibrational properties of the satellite. She was awarded the IEEE - WIE Women Leadership Dean’s Scholarship and the Department of Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate Research Award in 2016.

David L. Cotten is an assistant research scientist at the Center for Geospatial Research (CGR) in the geography department. Cotten, along with principal investigator, Deepak Mishra, helped create the SSRL in response to the funding of two satellites projects for designing and building Earth observation missions. Cotten serves as the primary science advisor and supervisor of the lab where he works closely with the students in their endeavors to send UGA’s first satellite to space. He has his Ph.D. in physics and astronomy and his current research uses satellite imagery to map national parks and to measure plant production of coastal ecosystems.

Roger Hunter is NASA Ames Research Center associate director for programs and projects. He is also program manager for the NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program. After retiring from the US Air Force, Hunter joined the Boeing Company for more than seven years, where he served as the program manager for the Boeing Company’s Sustainment Support of the US Air Force Global Positioning System. NASA Ames Research Center recruited him from Boeing to become program manager for the NASA Kepler Space-Telescope Mission and its mission to determine the number of potentially habitable worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. He earned a BS in mathematics from the University of Georgia. In addition to the UGA Board of Visitors, Hunter also serves on the UGA Franklin College Board of Advisors.

Vice President for Research David Lee received his undergraduate education from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Washington in Seattle. Following postdoctoral training at Washington University in St. Louis, he worked for two years in the pharmaceutical industry before joining the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985. There he became head of the biochemistry and biophysics department and a program leader in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in the UNC School of Medicine.

He moved to UGA in 2005 to assume his current administrative position. He serves on the boards of several national organizations, including the Oak Ridge Associated Universities, the Southeastern University Research Association and the U.S. Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center.

J. Marshall Shepherd is a leading international expert in weather and climate. He was the 2013 President of American Meteorological Society, the nation’s largest and oldest professional/science society in the atmospheric and related sciences. Shepherd is director of the University of Georgia’s Atmospheric Sciences Program, full professor in the department of geography and serves as associate department head. He is the Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences. Shepherd is also a contributor to Forbes and the host of The Weather Channel’s award-winning Weather Geeks, a pioneering Sunday talk show on national television dedicated to science.

UGA Small Satellite Research Laboratory

Where we are now!

Just in the past year the lab has grown to 54 undergraduate students, SPOC has been selected for NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative which means it will be launched either 2018, 2019, or 2020, and the students had four successful reviews with the Air Force and two with NASA.

HELP US GET TO SPACE! For the first time in history, UGA is going to space – and it’s the students who are taking us there! These students will make history for the university by providing it with its first ever spacecraft, ground station and

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outer space. We want to teach students how to build satellites and space ready payloads. UGA, and its students, are part of the modern space race that uses small satellites called CubeSats to perform ground breaking science and push the limits of our technological capabilities in outer space.

The SPOC CubeSat mission was selected by NASA’s Undergraduate Student Instrument Project (USIP) for funding in the amount of $200,000. The MOCI satellite’s design phase has been funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory University Nanosat Program (UNP). These funds, allow us

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December

Four UGA Undergraduate Students win National Hackathon for UGA and form Spacey Sciences LLC

2016 April

SSRL awarded funding ($200,000) from NASA for the Spectral Ocean Color (SPOC) mission, student team grows to 25 members, and the lab is given temporary space in the Physics building

UGA Faculty (Marshall Shepherd, Thomas Mote, Deepak Mishra, and David Cotton) meet with NASA Astronaut Mary Cleave about building a satellite for UGA

Spacey Sciences, now six students, looks into building a 1 U CubeSat

August

SSRL holds MOCI – Program Management Review at the Small Satellite Conference (the largest annual CubeSat conference) in Logan, Utah

Roger Hunter and Malcolm Adams inform UGA about undergraduate led satellite opportunities through NASA

2017

Student team (Spacey Sciences) meets with faculty for the first time

Spacey Sciences works with UGA’s Entrepreneurship Program to develop the largest remote operated 3D printed telescope.

Faculty and student team submit proposals to the NASA Undergraduate Student Instrument Program and the Air Force Research Lab – University Nanosatellite Program

UGA awarded funding ($110,000) from the Air Force, they start building the Mapping and Ocean color Imager (MOCI), and form the Small Satellite Research Laboratory (SSRL with 9 UGA faculty and 15 students)

January

SSRL moves into newly renovated, semipermanent lab space in the Physics building

February

SSRL’s SPOC mission chosen for NASA’s CubeSat Launch initiative, ensuring a launch before 2020

March

SSRL expands to 50 undergraduate students

April

SSRL students will present at CubeSat Developers Conference at Cal Poly