What’s in a name?

All great project start somewhere and all great projects have a name. Some names are abbreviations of their true meaning and some are just for fun.

After our team had our first teleconference with the USIP leaders from NASA we had a short debate and voting session on what the name of our project would be, and CATE was born.

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Throughout voting, we were torn between CATE (Collisional Accretion Experiment), SPACE (Student Panetesimal Accretion Experiment), and SLOTH (Slowly Launching Objects Through Haboobs).

SPACE started as a solid choice simply for professionalism. SLOTH was a runner-up due to the humor of the name. Finally, the winner, CATE Winslet won because there was a good balance between the fun of having a sloth mascot named Cate Winslet and a professional name: CATE.

So, what’s in our project’s name? A small bit of humor from the original option of SLOTH, the true meaning Collisional Accretion Project, and a deep love for the great actress K(C)ate Winslet.

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