In 2015 3 students, Spacey Sciences LLC, at the University of Georgia set out to build a modest and small spacecraft funded by a Kickstarter. In late 2015 the students reached out to faculty, and the UGA team applyed for two funding opprotunites, through NASA and the Air Force. After recieving funding for both projects the Small Satellite Research Laboratory was founded in 2016 with 8 faculty and 15 undergradautes 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 will have its first satellite deployed from the International Space Station in 2019.