SpaRTAN Lab Collaborators

NewAperio crafts delightful, thoughtful, and beautiful apps. They provide web and mobile design and development services, including expert Phoenix/Elixir, Rails/Ruby, React, and React Native consulting. NewAperio is partnering with the SpaRTAN lab in our efforts to develop radiation technology that will be flown on SpaceX's upcoming Inspiration 4 mission. The results will be new capabilities for radiation detectors to be easily flown during commercial spaceflights (details coming soon!)

Geocent  exists at the intersection of technology and engineering to craft innovative, future-focused solutions that fundamentally change how industries evolve. Geocent works toward world-changing missions that enable deep space exploration, protect the homeland, enable the warfighters and veterans. The SpaRTAN Physics Lab has an active non-disclosure agreement with Geocent and are actively collaborating on spaceflight endeavors.

Intuitive Machines is a premier provider and supplier of space products and services that enable sustained robotic and human exploration to the Moon, Mars and beyond. We drive markets with competitive world-class offerings synonymous with innovation, high quality, and precision. Whether leveraging state-of-the-art engineering tools and practices or integrating research and advanced technologies, our solutions are insightful and have a positive impact on the world. The SpaRTAN Physics Lab has an active non-disclosure agreement with Intuitive machines to support future commercial and scientific payloads to the Moon's surface.

For the sustainable development of Space, The Outer Space Institute is a research hub for addressing these questions by an interdisciplinary team of space subject matter experts. SpaRTAN Physics Laboratory director, Jeff Chancellor, is Fellow of the Outer Space Institute.

Atlantis delivers full-spectrum AI-enabled radiation models and shielding profiles to rapidly design, develop and apply more affordable, commercially available radiation tolerant space electronics for increased computational processing/storage at the edge. Using our commercial technology, Phalanx AI, we aim to drive U.S. spaceflight at the speed of COTS.

The Micro-11 flight experiment will help determine the effect of space flight on sperm capacitation and signal transduction changes compared to parallel samples on the ground. SpaRTAN lab is collaborating with PI Joseph Tash, Ph.D. the University of Kansas Medical Center by providing dosimetry analyses of the samples flown on ISS during Expedition 56. The LEONIDIS team is providing support with analysis of the radiation data collected during the experiment onboard the International Space Station.

Dr. Aunon-Chancellor is an Astronaut and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the LSU School of Medicine. She is board certified in Internal and Aerospace Medicine, she recently served as Flight Engineer on the International Space Station for Expeditions 56 and 57. 

Marjan Boerma is Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Her research focuses on cancer survivorship issues, particularly radiation-induced heart disease, risks of cardiovascular disease from exposure to radiation during space travel, and development of medical countermeasures against nuclear accidents or terrorism.

Dr. Koturbush is the Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Co-Director, Center for Dietary Supplements Research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 

Dr. South is an expert in plant biology and synthetic biology at Louisiana State Univeristy. Dr. South and the director of the SpaRTAN lab are collaborating on efforts to model and understand the effects of the space radiation environment on crop growth and the nutritional efficacy of multiple generations of plant seedlings.