Via the NASA Revolutionary Superior Ideas (NIAC) program, NASA nurtures visionary but credible ideas that would at some point “change the doable” in aerospace, whereas participating America’s innovators and entrepreneurs as companions within the journey.
These ideas span numerous...
Peter CabauyMetropolis Labs, Inc.
The NIAC Section I examine confirmed the feasibility of nuclear-micropowered probes (NMPs) utilizing tritium betavoltaic energy expertise for autonomous exploration of the Moon’s completely shadowed areas (PSRs). This work superior the expertise’s readiness stage (TRL)...
Christine HartzellCollege of Maryland, Faculty Park
The proposed investigation will handle key technological challenges related to a beforehand funded NIAC Section I award titled “On-Orbit, Collision-Free Mapping of Small Orbital Particles”. Sub-cm orbital particles in LEO will not be...
Alvaro Romero-CalvoGeorgia Tech Analysis Company
The dependable and environment friendly operation of spacecraft life assist methods is challenged in microgravity by the close to absence of buoyancy. This impacts the electrolytic manufacturing of oxygen and hydrogen from water by...
James BickfordCharles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
The Skinny-Movie Nuclear Engine Rocket (TFINER) is a novel house propulsion know-how that permits aggressive house exploration for missions which are inconceivable with present approaches. The idea makes use of skinny layers of...
Igor BargatinCollege of Pennsylvania
We suggest to make use of the photophoretic levitation and propulsion mechanism to create no-moving-parts flying automobiles that can be utilized to discover Earth’s higher ambiance. The photophoretic power arises when a strong is heated...
Aaswath Pattabhi RamanCollege of California, Los Angeles
Exploration of Mars has captivated the general public in current many years with high-profile robotic missions and the pictures they've acquired seeding our collective creativeness. NASA is actively planning for human exploration...
Benjamin HockmanNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The objective of this effort is to develop a sturdy and reasonably priced mission structure that allows the gravimetric density reconstruction of small physique interiors to unprecedented precision. Our structure depends on the novel...