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For lunar (expandable to Martian) ISRU applications, a novel small SWaP LIBS suite, Fast Elemental and Molecular Interrogation Sensor (FEMIS), is designed to provide real-time identification of geochemical composition of lunar regolith using an innovative elemental + molecular LIBS technology. Having rapid and intense signal responses, obviating the need to physically touch the surface in order to ...

NASA is looking for advanced sensor technologies, especially wireless embedded sensor systems, to support rocket propulsion development. The enabling technology should provide a highly flexible instrumentation solution capable of monitoring remote or inaccessible measurement locations. This sensor system should substantially reduce operational costs and evolutionary improvements in ground, launch ...

We are proposing to develop a photonic integrated circuit for implementing a reusable delay line arrayed waveguide gratings (RDL-AWG) on a Si3N4/SiO2 platform for use as miniature spectrometers with high resolution (resolving power R gt; 10,000) and high dynamic range (gt; 4 orders of magnitude) in the 1.6 to 2.0 um band for fire detection. In Phase I of this proposal, an integrated high spectral ...

NASA needsnbsp;system technology solutions that enable or enhance telescopes for missions of any size (from balloon or CubeSat to Probe or Flagship) operating at any wavelength from UV/optical to mid/far-infrared. Relative Dynamics Inc. proposes thenbsp;Metalens Near InfraRed Telescope (MeNIRT) solution.nbsp;RDI will design and analyze the overall telescope system.nbsp; The telescope system is the ...

One of the primary concerns when incorporating inflatable softgoods into habitation structures is the potential for structural material failure due to creep, which is the deformation that occurs under sustained loading. However, conducting real-time creep testing at the component and subscale levels can take an extensive amount of time, ranging from months to years. Therefore, there is a need to d ...

We propose a framework leveraging machine learning to enable the development of Earth System Digital Twins (ESDTs) through a machine-learned (ML) stochastic bin microphysics (SBM) emulator. To achieve the fast observational feedback required by an ESDT, we plan to first implement a conditional variational auto-encoder/decoder (cVAE/D) model as a radar observation parameter (ROP) mapper that maps t ...

The integration and digital connection of National Airspace System (NAS) with Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) provides more pathways for hackers to attack the aircraft. To address this critical need, University Technical Services, Inc. (UTS) proposes to develop an automated vulnerability assessment and risk mitigation (ALARM) system, to provide real-time cybersecuri ...

To meet the NASArsquo;s needs for in-space inspection, Advanced Analyzer Labs, Inc. (AAL) proposes an innovative X-ray analyzer.nbsp; This analyzer is designed to be portable, compact, low power, safe, light weight, flexible, and highly efficient for conducting the following None-destructive Evaluation (NDE) tests using X-ray Diffraction (XRD), X-ray Fluorescence (XRF), and X-ray imaging.Inspectio ...

New Integration Photonics, Inc., is proposing to develop an ultra-high resolving power (Rgt;150,000) spectrometer based on arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs) on a Si3N4/SiO2 photonic integrated chip (PIC). The spectrometer implements a reusable delay line (RDL), replacing the large number of waveguides in the traditional AWG, which significantly reduces the size and increases the stability of the c ...

Zeteo Tech, Inc. nbsp;proposes to design, develop and prototype a robust, small size, weight, and power (SWaP) TOF mass spectrometer with enhanced mass resolving power (m/Delta;m ge; 25,000, FWHM) and practically unlimited mass range, which will allow in situ detection of organic and biomolecules in complex mixtures. It is based on a novel design of a multi-reflection TOF using microfabrication te ...