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COMMERCIAL AND GOVERNMENT SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS DEPEND ON GROUND SUPPORT FOR NAVIGATION. THE GROUND SOLUTION CAN BE COSTLY AND MAY PROVIDE LESS ACCURACY THAN NEEDED. A GPS-BASED REAL-TIME AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION SYSTEM IS PROPOSED. AN ALGORITHM WILL BE DEVELOPED WHICH COMBINES GPS-DERIVED POINT POSITION ESTIMATES WITH A PROPAGATED A PRIORI POSITION ESTIMATE. THE POINT POSITIONS ARE ...

BioMedical Enterprises, Inc. (BME) and NASA Ames Research Center (NASA ARC) are developing NASA's aerospace insulation materials for use as an osseous scaffolding to facilitate and support bone wound healing and regeneration. Fibrous reusable composite insulation (FRCI) developed by NASA for use on the space shuttle was modified to promote bone ingrowth and will be evaluated for its ability to fo ...

This research project will develop a unique, high-power, 30 amp hour (Ah) rechargeable battery for a variety of commercial and military applications. The performance characteristics of this technology have produced the highest specific peak power of any known battery technology, producing power levels in excess of 5000 Watts/kilogram (W/kg) and 16,000 Watts/liter (W/1). In addition, this unique Th ...

This SBIR Phase I program will test the feasibility of achieving a high effective radar cross section over extremely wide bandwidth in a small, low-cost, RF repeater module, using a retrodirective array of a very small repeaters. The array factors effectively multiply the RF characteristics of a single channel to realize high array gain and power using low-performance amplifier. An integral goal ...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/EXPERT SYSTEM TECHNIQUES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THE ABILITY TO ADDRESS COMPLEX REASONING TASKS REQUIRED FOR PROCESS PLANNING. FEATURE-BASED DESIGN THEORY AND PRELIMINARY EFFORTS HAVE SHOWN THE POTENTIAL OF PROVIDING A FUNDAMENTAL MODEL FOR CAPTURE AND MANIPULATION OF DESIGN KNOWLEDGE. HOWEVER, THE TWO TECHNOLOGIES HAVE NOT BEEN SUFFICIENTLY INTEGRATED TO ALLOW DESIGN FEATURES TO ...

IMAGINE AN INTERNET SERVICE THAT RAPIDLY RETRIEVES EVERY LECTURE AND CONFERENCE OF A PARTICULAR PERSON BASED ON A SPEECH SAMPLE. IMAGINE AN INTERNET SERVICE THAT QUICKLY RETRIEVES ALL INFRARED AND SATELLITE IMAGES OF A CITY BASED ON AN AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH. ALSO, IMAGINE SEARCHING GIGABYTES OF UNSTRUCTURED TEXT IN SECONDS ON A 386-BASED MICROCOMPUTER. DEVELOSOFT CORPORATION PROPOSES TO INCORPORATE A ...

Digital Wave Corporation proposed to develop a novel nondestructive testing (NDT) system for high speed acquisition and analysis of wide band acoustic emission (AE) waveforms. The system will provide the capability to detect, identify and locate crack growth in loaded steel structures. This system will incorporate the new high fidelity sensor developed by the Federal Highway Administration and a ...

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We propose to enhance a previously designed and built processor interconnection network to make a distributed multiprocessor system that both has higher performance and is substantially more fault tolerant. The philosophy is to provide a system with: rapid, reliable global detection of system status changes with negligible impact on the host processors; in particular, no host message processing d ...

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