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Electrostatic discharge control is vital for the health of any spacecraft. Exposure to charged particles in a space enviroment can lead to large charge differences across the craft, that, if no mechanism for controlled discharge is present, can destroy mission critical equipment. The preferred way of ESD control is to use conducting thermal control coatings. These coatings combine the ability to r ...

Inflatable or self-deployable systems offer the only practical way to achieve space deployed antennas with low mass at large aperture. In this Phase I program, open-celled rigid polyurethane foams were developed for use in self-deploying antenna structures. Advantages of such a system relative to current systems include high volumetric efficiency of packing, inherent restoring force, low (or no) o ...

The goal of this proposal over Phase I and II SBIR studies and subsequent full scale development is to commercialize a noninvasive insulin infusion system that is painless, convenient, discrete, safe, efficacious and cost-effective. Such a system will bridge the gap between the tight glucose control currently recommended by the American Diabetes Association and the convenience and quality of life ...

A major challenge to the successful operation of multiple unmanned vehicles is the necessity to operate effectively and safely under a wide range of changing conditions. In the past, there have been two major paradigms employed to accomplish this control;fully pre-programmed missions and manual control from a remote console. A new paradigm is needed that supports a full range of automated and miss ...

Platforms for scientific instruments increasingly require attitude knowledge and optical instrument pointing at sub-arcsecond accuracy. No low-cost commercial system exists to provide this level of accuracy for guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) and precision instrument pointing. ATA proposes to introduce a small inexpensive inertial attitude reference system based upon magnetohydrodynamic (M ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): An innovative fluorescence system for sensing biomolecular interactions was developed in Phase I that is based on total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF). The main advantages of this system are integrated microfluidics and a design that allows rapid replacement of TIRF sensor chip. The feasibility of building a highly sensitive and versatile TIRF biosenso ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): BioTechnical Communications. Inc. (BTC) is proposing a Culturally Targeted Health Information Network ("the Network"). The goal of the Network is to provide African-Americans with credible health information, using a combination of traditional (radio) and non-traditional (internet) communications mediums, to improve their awareness. knowledge, and health behav ...

65101 Generation IV nuclear power plants will require comprehensive and cost-effective methods for monitoring plant wire and cable. Current methods primarily focus on correlating mechanical or chemical laboratory measurements of samples retrieved from installed wire and cable in the plant with acceleration-aged data. However, physical access to samples is often difficult and time-intensive, and ...

65017 Oil well formation damage is detrimental to the oil production rate and ultimate recovery from carbonate reservoirs that contain 3.7 billion barrels of proved domestic reserve. This project will develop an innovative well stimulation technique, based on laboratory measurements of wettability alteration coupled with artificial intelligence, to design well treatments. Phase I laborator ...

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