{"id":61684,"date":"2017-03-01T17:52:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T22:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-398045"},"modified":"2023-10-10T17:14:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T21:14:57","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/smallsat-institute\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\" hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-secondary-navigation\"><div class=\"hds-secondary-navigation-wrapper z-top width-100 padding-0\"><div id=\"\" class=\"hds-secondary-navigation width-full border-bottom-1px text-center hds-color-mode-light hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-hdsnav\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"hds-secondary-nav-mobile-button display-flex tablet:display-flex desktop:display-none width-full flex-align-center bg-carbon-90 border-color-carbon-80 color-spacesuit-white\" aria-expanded=\"false\" 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class=\"page-heading-md display-block width-full margin-bottom-1\">About the Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-7 padding-right-0 desktop:padding-right-6 padding-bottom-5 desktop:padding-bottom-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p-lg margin-0 padding-0\">The Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI) is chartered to perform the following: establish effective conduits for collaboration and the dissemination of information to increase overall awareness of NASA small spacecraft programs, opportunities and activities; capture and share best practices, emerging technology opportunities, and data; facilitate and execute special studies; and conduct external workshops and public events to share mission-enabling information with the small spacecraft community.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"mailto:agency-smallsat-institute@mail.nasa.gov\" target=\"_self\" class=\"button-primary link-external-false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"section-heading-md\">\n                                Contact Us <span class=\"usa-sr-only\">about About the Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute<\/span>                            <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg viewBox=\"0 0 32 32\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><circle class=\"button-primary-circle\" cx=\"16\" cy=\"16\" r=\"16\"><\/circle><path d=\"M8 16.956h12.604l-3.844 4.106 1.252 1.338L24 16l-5.988-6.4-1.252 1.338 3.844 4.106H8v1.912z\" class=\"color-spacesuit-white\"><\/path><\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-5 padding-left-0 desktop:padding-left-6\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-row margin-bottom-3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col border-top-1px border-color-carbon-30-important padding-top-2 margin-right-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"label margin-0 color-carbon-50-important\">Director<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p-lg font-weight-bold margin-0 padding-0\">Bruce D. Yost<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col border-top-1px border-color-carbon-30-important padding-top-2 margin-left-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"label margin-0 color-carbon-50-important\">Deputy Director<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p-lg font-weight-bold margin-0 padding-0\">Craig D. Burkhard<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col border-top-1px border-color-carbon-30-important padding-top-2 margin-right-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"label margin-0 color-carbon-50-important\">Established<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p-lg font-weight-bold margin-0 padding-0\">2017<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col border-top-1px border-color-carbon-30-important padding-top-2 margin-left-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"label margin-0 color-carbon-50-important\">Location<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p-lg font-weight-bold margin-0 padding-0\">NASA Ames Research Center<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The S3VI is physically located at NASA Ames Research Center, in California\u2019s Silicon Valley. During S3VI\u2019s first year, 2017, the institute established its virtual presence within the small spacecraft community at large, through development of its web portal. As the common portal for NASA-related small spacecraft activities, the S3VI continues to offer this online resource providing access to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/smallsat-institute\/sst-soa\" target=\"_blank\">Small Spacecraft Technology State of the Art report<\/a>; the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov\/spoon\/#\/\" target=\"_blank\">SmallSat Parts On Orbit Now (SPOON) database<\/a>, one of a number of now federated databases in its <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Small Satellite Information Search<\/a> capability; a collection of current NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/smallsat-institute\/nasa-smallsat-opportunities\">small spacecraft funding opportunities<\/a>, and information on on-going small spacecraft related working groups hosted or supported by the S3VI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018 the S3VI debuted the common search capability, referenced above as the <a href=\"https:\/\/s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Small Satellite Information Search<\/a> tool. The search capability serves as an entry point to NASA-internal and external databases that allows the public to search multiple databases for small spacecraft parts, technologies, papers and presentations, using a single search button. NASA\u2019s Electronic Parts and Packaging (NEPP) radiation parts and publications databases, and TechPort joined SPOON in the federated database set in 2018. During this year, the S3VI initiated collection and review of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/smallsat-institute\/space-mission-design-tools\">space mission design tools<\/a> that exist as publicly available software from NASA or the Open Source community. In December 2018 the institute released the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/smallsat-institute\/sst-soa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Small Spacecraft Technology State of the Art report<\/a>, which continues as an annual S3VI product.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ptd-1_spacecraft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ptd-1_spacecraft.jpg?w=1280\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Illustration of a spacecraft, demonstrating a water-based propulsion system in low-Earth orbit. \" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ptd-1_spacecraft.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ptd-1_spacecraft.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ptd-1_spacecraft.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ptd-1_spacecraft.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ptd-1_spacecraft.jpg?resize=400,225 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ptd-1_spacecraft.jpg?resize=600,338 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ptd-1_spacecraft.jpg?resize=900,506 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ptd-1_spacecraft.jpg?resize=1200,675 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Illustration of the Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-1 spacecraft, demonstrating a water-based propulsion system in low-Earth orbit.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\"><strong><em>Credit: NASA<\/em><\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In 2019 the S3VI launched its public bi-monthly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/smallsat-institute\/small-spacecraft-community-of-practice\">webinar series<\/a> to share information with the community on work NASA, partner agencies, and other members of the community are performing in the area of small spacecraft. During this year, the institute facilitated studies on topics of communications and navigation for small spacecraft lunar applications, as well small spacecraft propulsion systems. The institute also continued to expand its common search database set to include the archived Small Satellite Conference Proceedings presented from 1987 to 2019 and the SATSEARCH database which contains space products and services from global suppliers. In 2019 the S3VI hosted NASA\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/technology\/smallsat-tim\" rel=\"noopener\">Small Spacecraft Mission Technical Interchange Meeting<\/a> (TIM). Planned as an annual event, the TIM (currently called the Small Spacecraft Forum) gathers investigators from current and recent NASA-sponsored small spacecraft missions to share experiences with small satellite mission development and execution across all NASA mission areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The S3VI responded to reduced in-person events in 2020 by expanding the frequency of its increasingly popular S3VI webinar series to a monthly event and introduced its online newsletter to share resources and information with the community. 2020 also saw the addition of several databases to the <a href=\"https:\/\/s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Small Satellite Information Search<\/a> to include the CubeSat Developers Workshop online proceedings database; Inter-Planetary Small Satellite Conference Proceedings database; and Parts, Materials, and Processes Encyclopedia (PMPedia). The <a href=\"https:\/\/s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov\/cubesat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SmallSat\/CubeSat Fleet Chart and Missions Database<\/a>, a graphic and compilation of NASA-sponsored missions, was added in 2020 to share current mission status and other details on a monthly basis. The S3VI also continued its sponsorship and support for a number of small spacecraft-focused conferences for both NASA and other government agencies, including the intergovernmental workshop on small spacecraft optical communications that was held virtually in December 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021 the S3VI continued focusing on virtual community engagement and hosted NASA\u2019s second <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/technology\/2021-smallsat-forum\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Small Spacecraft Forum<\/a> as a virtual series of meetings. Over this past year, the institute rolled out its online <a href=\"https:\/\/s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov\/ssri-kb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Small Spacecraft Reliability Initiative Knowledge Base<\/a> tool, a comprehensive and searchable online tool that consolidates and organizes resources, best practices, and lessons learned from previous small spacecraft missions to improve small spacecraft mission confidence. The addition of databases to the <a href=\"https:\/\/s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Small Satellite Information Search<\/a> continued with the addition of SatSearch and CubeSat Launch Initiative reports. The S3VI hosted the Small Spacecraft Technology program\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/smallsat-institute\/smallsat-technology-partnerships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SmallSat Technology Partnerships Exposition<\/a> and initiated a new webinar series called \u2018Mission Accomplished\u2019 to highlight the success of small spacecraft in helping to achieve science, exploration and technology goals for NASA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The institute\u2019s plans for 2022 include continuing development of its many publicly available products as well as a re-design of its web portal to improve functionality and utility. Additional products and activities include those that focus on industry and NASA-internal exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The S3VI is sponsored by NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For more information about the STMD, visit:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/spacetech\/home\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.nasa.gov\/spacetech<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For more information about the SMD, visit:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/science.nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact us if you have questions on the S3VI: <a href=\"mailto:Agency-SmallSat-Institute@mail.nasa.gov\">Agency-SmallSat-Institute@mail.nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Point of contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bruce D. 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