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In the past several years, a number of large-scale prototype electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft have been flight tested by aircraft manufacturers to achieve their commercial product development goals for the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) market. Owing to intellectual property and propriety information concerns, however, relatively few large-scale eVTOL aircraft have been flight t ...

Generation of quantum light deterministically and at telecommunications wavelengths has been an insurmountable challenge for execution of quantum networking protocols in a scalable manner, as telecom photons can travel with minimal loss through optical fiber networks, distributing quantum entanglement over long distances. Semiconductor quantumnbsp;dots have emerged as the most promising platform t ...

Integration of Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles has the potential to transform the landscape of short-range vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) flight.nbsp; Among the eVTOL aircraft under development for projected Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) missions are distributed electric propulsion (DEP) vehicles with multiple rotors often operating in combination with fixed wing and tai ...

The recent upsurge in development and prospective applications of Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles has the potential to transform the vertical flight landscape.nbsp; Among the several classes of aircraft under development for projected Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) applications are vehicles with distributed multiple-rotor systems.nbsp; Such multicopters offer potential benefits ...

We are proposing the fully autonomous science facility REALISE for suspended biological cultures that can both incubate organisms over long periods of time (30 days to 9 months) but also perform in-situ analysis of samples using bright-field and three-color fluorescence microscopy. REALISE will be based heavily on functionality, components, and experience from past Shuttle, ISS, and Orion heritage ...

NASA manages $40B in facility assets with an inventory of more than 5,000 facilities. Over 83% of this infrastructure is beyond its design life, and the agency faces a deferred maintenance backlog of $2.77B. An effective method to address this challenge and achieve digital transformation is through Enterprise Architecture (EA) and the use of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods.nbsp;Duri ...

The proposed innovation is thenbsp;development and validation of bulk regolith infrastructure for use in lunar surface construction. The focus is on designing and testing 2D and 3D rego-works, such as trenches, berms, and overburden structures, that can protect astronauts and mission assets from hazards such as GCR, SPEs, micrometeorite impacts, plumes, moonquakes, and extreme thermal swings. The ...

Rocket propulsion system development is enabled by rigorous ground testing to mitigate the propulsion system risks inherent in spaceflight. Helium is used in piping and engine purge processes to inert liquid hydrogen systems. The cost of helium is increasing as the supply diminishes, impacting testing of the rocket engines for space propulsion systems. There is an outstanding need within NASA prop ...

Vescent Photonics, LLC (Vescent) in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory (MIT-LL) proposes to develop a compact ultra-narrow linewidth laser based on photonic integrated chip (PIC) technology for next-generation fieldable quantum sensor applications including optical atomic clocks, two-way time transfer, and precision inertial force and gravity sensing.nb ...

Mesh generation for wall-modeled large eddy simulations (WMLES) based CFD simulations represents a critical area of research as there are significant challenges which must be overcome before this technology can be adopted for widespread use.nbsp; Two critical challenges associated with these scale-resolving simulations is mesh size and mesh quality.nbsp; Mesh size represents a critical challenge a ...