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To date, no realizable method of predicting the occurrence or magnitude of a Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) event has been developed. There are multiple models currently available in the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) through Goddard Space Flight Center that attempt to provide timely and accurate event propagation (e.g.MAG4, Enlil, and SEPMOD). None of these have yet achieved the goa ...

We propose a high-impact innovation for weather forecasting that integrates global ensemble weather forecasts with an AI-driven post-processing model of extreme weather indices. This innovation will provide the basis for skillful probabilistic forecasts of compound extreme weather events at extended lead times. Extreme weather/climate events of relevance to electric utilities focused on in Phase I ...

The current state of the art for production computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations in both the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) communities and modeling of hypersonic vehicles is the solution of steady-state problems on fixed computation grids. However, the majority of relevant challenge problems are unsteady. Accurate simulations of such unsteady phenomena currently require computational g ...

Building lunar infrastructure requires moving regolith in unprecedented quantities both to produce level areas,nbsp;cutting in some areas, filling in others, for the infrastructurersquo;s construction, It also requires excavation to provide regolith feedstock for beneficiation and in situ manufacturing of the materials from which much of the infrastructure is to be built.Regolith handling characte ...

nbsp;Based on the knowledge and expertise gained in partnership with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) during the NASA/STTR Phase I work, re:3D proposes the development of a pilot system for the deposition of a phenolic foam TPS surface onto a scaled demonstration article in parallel with refinements and improvements to the foamrsquo;s material characteristics.The Phase II research ac ...

Corvid Technologies (Corvid) and North Carolina State University (NCSU) are employing a novel moving Discontinuous Galerkin with Interface Conservation Enforcement (MDG+ICE) approach. The MDG+ICE method represents a fundamentally grounded and break-through approach and is specifically designed for flows with discontinuities and therefore especially attractive for hypersonic flows. During Phase I, ...

Silicon organic hybrid (SOH) EO modulators are a leading potential solution to the limitations of silicon pn junction EO modulators, including poor modulation efficiency, high optical loss, and limited EO bandwidth, which constrain the performance of silicon photonics (SiPh) PICs. In SOH modulators, the tight confinement of optical and RF fields inside the organic EO (OEO) material, combined with ...

The proposed innovation is to design and demonstrate an End-to-End Space Mission Operations Digital Twin (MODT) Platform for collaborative multi-disciplinary analysis and decision making in Mission Control.nbsp; This platform will provide situational awareness across the flight control team and crew, through a hyper-realistic, multi-user, multi-modal virtual environment that integrates existing (a ...

Recent advances in techniques for Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME) have the potential to produce electronics assemblies that are uniquely compact and conformable, but these techniques have not been proven effective for space applications. Designing and fabricating printed circuit boards (PCBs) that can meet rigorous space flight qualifications specifications is challenging. There are curr ...

Our Brickbot conveyance system comprises of bucket drums and annbsp;electromagnetic sieving and filtering system mounted on a robotic mobility platform used for initial risk reduction test demonstrations. Anbsp;method to scoop the uncompacted top surface layer of lunar regolith is employed to depositnbsp;acquired regolith directly over the top of the robotrsquo;s shroud cover which is modified to ...