{"502981":{"#nid":"502981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE\u0027s Prox-1 Team Clears Another Hurdle on its Way to Space","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Dave Spencer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and his team of\u0026nbsp; researchers have cleared another hurdle on their way to launching Prox-1, the highly-engineered satellite that has been given a spot aboard the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket this fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn February 5 the team from the Space Systems Design Laboratory (SSDL)\u0026nbsp;successfully underwent a pre-integration review conducted by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Air Force Research Lab (AFOSR\/AFRL) which jointly run the University Nanosatellite Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe review ensures that the spacecraft is fully functional, at the system level, in a bench-top configuration. Now that the review is complete, final integration of the spacecraft components into the flight structure will begin. The next major milestone for Prox-1 is the pre-ship review, scheduled for May.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProx-1 will be the first spacecraft built by Georgia Tech to be launched into space,\u201d said Spencer, who served as a mission designer for the Mars Pathfinder during nearly 2 decades with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ve built components before, but this is a Georgia Tech vehicle.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearched and tested by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spencer.ae.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESpencer\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and his students in AE\u2019s Space Systems Design Laboratory (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ssdl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESSDL\u003C\/a\u003E),\u0026nbsp; the Prox-1 spacecraft was chosen for the launch by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research\u2019s University Nanosatellite Program (UNP) during a system integration competition last year. The SSDL design trumped a field of 11 competitors.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Dave Spencer and his team of  researchers have cleared another hurdle on their way to launching Prox-1, the highly-engineered satellite that has been given a spot aboard the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket this fall."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-18 12:52:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:49","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"502971":{"id":"502971","type":"image","title":"Prox-1 Team Clears Another Hurdle","body":null,"created":"1456167600","gmt_created":"2016-02-22 19:00:00","changed":"1475895263","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:23","alt":"Prox-1 Team Clears Another Hurdle","file":{"fid":"204768","name":"prox_team-500.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/prox_team-500_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/prox_team-500_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":298819,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/prox_team-500_0.jpg?itok=WWY9Z9R-"}}},"media_ids":["502971"],"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":"142991","name":"Dave Spencer"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"169955","name":"Prox-1"},{"id":"171442","name":"SSDL"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}