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Center Innovation Fund Program
<p> To stimulate and encourage creativity and innovation within the NASA Centers. The activities are envisioned to fall within the scope of NASA Space Technology or... -
Q-thruster Breadboard Campaign Project
<p>Q-thruster technology is a mission enabling form of electric propulsion and is already being traded by NASA's Concept Architecture Team (CAT) & Human... -
Advanced Space Power Systems (ASPS): Advanced Microelectromechanical (MEMs)...
<p>Develop new cell and blanket technologies and manufacturing processes that reduce overall array costs</p><p>•Cells: develop new cell technology... -
A Compact Immersion Grating Spectrometer with Quantum Capacitance Detectors...
<p>SPECTROMETER: The grating spectrometer uses a curved grating fabricated on a high resistivity silicon wafer. Light will be coupled in via a silicon immersion... -
Mars Technology Project
<p> NASA’s Mars Exploration Program (MEP) calls for a series of highly ambitious missions over the next decade and beyond. The overall goals of the MEP must be... -
The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI): Update & Second Launch Project
<p> Particle acceleration in solar flares and its contribution to coronal heating are among the main unsolved problems in heliophysics. Accelerated electrons in... -
New Detector Development for X-ray Astronomy Project
"We propose to continue our detector development program in X-ray astronomy. Under our current grant we are developing a new type of active pixel detector. The current funding... -
Direct Energy Conversion for Nuclear Propulsion at Low Specific Mass Project
<p>Low specific mass (< 3 kg/kW) in-space electric power and propulsion can drastically alter the paradigm for exploration of the Solar System, changing... -
Space Mission Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) Project
<p>The purpose of this project is to extend current ground-based Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) techniques to a long-duration, space-based tool to more effectively... -
Development and Testing of a New Positron Identification by Coincident...
<p> The objective of the proposed research is to develop and test a prototype of an innovative and simple detector technique to identify moderate energy (a few MeV)... -
High-contrast Nulling Interferometry Techniques Project
"We are developing rotating-baseline nulling-interferometry techniques and algorithms on the single-aperture Hale and Keck telescopes at near-infrared wavelengths, aimed at the... -
Deep Mapping of Small Solar System Bodies with Galactic Cosmic Ray Secondary...
<p>Our Phase I study demonstrated that muons, the long-range charged component of GCR showers, can penetrate SSBs on the order of a km in diameter or less,... -
Instrument Incubator Program
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General Mission Analysis Tool Project
<p><strong>Overview</strong></p><p>GMAT is a feature rich system containing high fidelity space system models, optimization and targeting,<br... -
GIBS Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)
GDAL is an open source translator library for raster geospatial data formats that presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. By... -
US Participation in the Solar Orbiter Multi Element Telescope for Imaging...
<p> The <em>Multi Element Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy, METIS</em>, investigation has been conceived to perform off-limb and near-Sun coronagraphy... -
Next Generation Microshutter Arrays Project
We propose to develop the next generation MicroShutter Array (MSA) as a multi-object field selector for missions anticipated in the next two decades. For many applications, this... -
Development of a Robust Low-Power Pressure Transducer for Thermospheric...
<p> The Earth’s ionosphere is home to a number of phenomena that are regularly observed but still unpredictable; obvious examples include equatorial spread F,... -
Rapid Electrochemical Detection and Identification of Microbiological and...
<p>A great deal of effort has gone into the development of point-of-use methods to meet the challenge of rapid bacterial identification for both environmental monitoring...