In 2015, 3 students at the University of Georgia set
out to build a spacecraft funded by Kickstarter. They reached out to
faculty and received funding NASA and the Air Force.
The Small Satellite Research Laboratory was founded in 2016 with 8
faculty and 15 undergraduate students. The lab is now building two
cubesats for Low Earth Orbit and contains over 50 undergraduate
students, 5 graduate students, and 12 faculty. The Small Satellite
Research Laboratory had its first satellite, SPOC, deployed from the
International Space Station in 2020.
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