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The ability to image in harsh environments such as Venus is of interest and use including for missions to the surface of Venus. Today overwhelmingly almost all video cameras are based on silicon charge coupled devices (CCDs); however CCDs are not suited for and not capable of functioning at high/extreme temperature environments such as surface and atmosphere of Venus. Vidicons and similar types of ...

Leveraging the recent breakthroughs in manufacturing of ultrafast photonics devices such as PIN-PD or UTC-PD, and in the drastic improvement in cost and performance of ASE, we propose to transform our commercial high ENR noise sources, currently operated under 110 GHz, into an integrated noise diode chip operating in sub-mmWave/THz.nbsp; The proposed noise diode chip is an ideal source to calibrat ...

In order to achieve the long duration manned deep-space missions, NASA created the Spacecraft Oxygen Recovery (SCOR) project aiming to increase the oxygen recovery of the Sabatier technology from 50% to 75-100%, and the Game Changing Development Program has been seeking techniques addressing ldquo;Advanced Oxygen Recovery for Spacecraft Life Support Systemsrdquo;. Space oxygen recovery technologie ...

Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), which recently spun out of the world-class diamond materials and devicenbsp;collaboration between Michigan State University (MSU) and MSU-located Fraunhofer USA Center for Coatings and Diamond Technologies (CCD), has a mission to become the leading supplier of high performance diamond for advanced (non-gemstone) applications.Compared to Si, GaAs, 6H- amp; 4 ...

This SBIR Phase I project will demonstrate that high radiation-resistance can be elicited from nanostructured media comprised of semiconducting nanoparticles derived from size-governed wide band-gap CdTe or PbTe. In order to transform space-based particle sensors, nanocrystalline semiconductors provide an attractive material basis because they present a means of: 1) decreasing the underlying mater ...

Michigan Aerospace Corporation proposes to model a remote-sensing instrument, based around a Fabry-Perot interferometer, for sensing thermospheric winds from anbsp;CubeSat-class satellite during this Phase I base effort. nbsp;This work will provide an important, relatively inexpensive and compact instrument option for measuring thermospheric winds, with implications for improving space weather obs ...

Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) proposes a compact, vacuum-regenerable sorbent bed for effectively removing a broad range of trace contaminants, meeting all topic performance requirements, which can be integrated with the Exploration Portable Life Support System (xPLSS) CO2/H2O removal system. Both the primary trace contaminants (ammonia, CO, formaldehyde, and methyl mercaptan) as well as other s ...

G-Space is an AI environment that brings forward a new class of materials liberated from gravity. G-Space is strategically positioned at the intersection of terrestrial and space markets by seeking to understand material needs to meet the demands of the digital age in areas such as sensing, transmission, storage and energy efficiency while identifying new formulations that are stable and can only ...

In this Phase I Program Pepin Associates extends its aligned discontinuous preform technology to hot structures.nbsp; Aligned discontinuous preforms allow complex preform shapes to be formed rapidly while retaining mechanical properties for efficient, lightweight structures.nbsp; This technology reduces the cost of fabricating complex, integrated polymer matrix precursor structures for ceramic mat ...

This SBIR Phase I project will develop a lightweight, flexible, high-strength conductive wiring cable that is easy to process. In previous work, large volumetric fractions of Au, Ag, Cu and Al nanoparticles (NPs) were incorporated into a porous aramid nanofiber (ANF) matrix to realize films that have high electrical conductivity, yet maintain superior mechanical strength, the properties, which are ...