{"427451":{"#nid":"427451","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Brian Gunter receives JPL Summer Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Brian Gunter will return to the JPL this summer to do research on spacecraft payload requirements and standards.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAerospace engineering professor Brian Gunter is one of five Georgia Tech faculty chosen to do targeted research this summer through Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Fellowships program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGunter\u0027s research proposal, \u0022Requirements and Standards Development for a Future Interplanetary Hosted Payload System\u0022 outlines his plans to investigate existing hosted payload systems, identify common elements, and adapt them to a set of requirements and standards that would be applicable for interplanetary missions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe JPL\u0026nbsp;Fellowship is a joint project between the Georgia Tech Center for Space Technology and Research (CSTAR) and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The long-term goal of the project is to develop a plug-and-play style hosted payload system with deployer capability, that can be easily accommodated on any future NASA mission,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This would greatly improve the ability for small hosted payloads and\/or cubesat missions to complement NASA\u2019s flagship planetary missions, and hopefully kickstart a new era in planetary cubesat exploration.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second JPL Summer Fellowship for Gunter. Last summer his proposal, \u0022Utilizing Nano-satellite Technology for Improved Monitoring of Earth\u2019s Time-variable Gravity\u0022 gave Gunter a\u0026nbsp; valuable opportunity to dive into a mission concept involving a constellation of nano-satellites to measure the Earth\u0027s time-variable gravity. He worked alongside JPL\u0027s Dr. Mike Watkins and Dr. David Wiese, both of whom are heavily involved with the current GRACE and upcoming GRACE Follow-On missions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year, Gunter will shift his focus to an investigation of the way in which\u0026nbsp; small and nanosat systems are used on space missions and focus on the manner in which they interface with the primary missions\u2019 subsystems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Gunter is seen here during his 2014 JPL\u0026nbsp;Fellowship, when he researched the use of nano-satellites to improve the monitoring of time-sensitive gravity.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Examples of such interaction include the use of the primary satellites\u2019 power and communications\u0026nbsp; systems to maintain stable thermal conditions and forward housekeeping data of the hosted payload or\u0026nbsp; rideshare,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis process could be greatly simplified by employing a standardized set of software and hardware connections, he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This would allow the selection and integration of the hosted payload to be decoupled from the primary mission.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aerospace engineering professor Brian Gunter is one of five Georgia Tech faculty chosen to do targeted research this summer through Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Fellowships program."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-22 10:29:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:15","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"133281","name":"Brian Gunter"},{"id":"6316","name":"JPL"},{"id":"136331","name":"JPL Fellowships program"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}