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By 2030 the entire lithium-ion battery chain, from mining through recycling, is expected to reach a value of $400 billion and a market size of 4.7 TWh. LiB are used in personal electronic devices, e-bikes, tools, green-power storage and electric vehicles. Individual cells are commonly collected into packs or modules to provide the power required for automotive operation. The operational capability ...

The State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) have limited right-of-way (ROW) to construct stormwater treatment controls. Hence innovative self-contained portable stormwater treatment systems are needed to reduce impacts on streams, and other waters; recreation facilities, and habitat by addressing emerging stormwater pollutants, particularly the suspended and dissolved pollutants from highway co ...

Reliable Vamp;V and testing of fault management (FM) during design, implementation and operations is an essential part of systems engineering design and development of critical space programs such as the SLS, Gateway and Artemis.nbsp;NASArsquo;s Mission and Fault Management group currently utilizes SAM to assess nominal andnbsp;FM algorithms prior to full-scale real-time testing, to proactively ch ...

Qualtech Systems, Inc. (QSI) in collaboration with Dr. Stephen B. Johnson of Dependable Systems Technologies (DST) proposesnbsp;a novel, causal graph-based model and a systematic modeling methodology for assessing damage propagation due to one or multiple originating faults and how the propagation affects and damages other components. In fault propagation, downstream components from the root-cause ...

One of NASArsquo;s major technology needs is to increase system autonomy and resilience. To accomplish this, an important tasknbsp;is to connect fault management (FM)nbsp;to systems engineering (SE) and operations.nbsp;In highly reliable systems there must be some means to detect and respond to failure of those functions. Identifying and allocating the requirements and functions for these capabili ...

NASA is interested in improving the method to control CO2 and water in the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) to meet the ambitious objectives of the Artemis program, which includes human presence on the surface of the Moon and Mars. The technology that is planned to be used is the RCA which utilizes two beds that are alternately used to remove CO2 and H2O and then are regenerated by ...

In order to revisit Venus and explore its climate, atmosphere, and surface for the first time since the 1985 VeGa mission, NASA is interested in developing aerial vehicles capable of in situ investigation. One potential solution is annbsp;aerial platform that must float and fly between 52 and 62 km in the atmosphere while experiencing temperatures ranging from -30deg;C to 62deg;C, pressures from 8 ...

In Phase I, Meroxa proposes to demonstrate the technical feasibility of building accessible tooling and connectors (proof of concept) for NASA to move space weather data, regardless of format and location, to any destination in the format required and in real-time.

Aerial assets are a critical tool used to fight wildland fires in areas of complex terrain. In late 2021, the first known attempt to use an air tanker at night resulted in a fatal crash that was potentially caused by strong low level turbulence. This tragedy and others like it demonstrate the need for accurate estimates of the current low-level wind field and its evolution over 3-12 hours in order ...

In response to the 2023 NASA SBIR solicitation subtopic Z8.13, ldquo;Space Debris Prevention for Small Spacecraftrdquo;, Advanced Space, LLC proposes to develop Machine Learning (ML) techniques to reduce and subsequently remove the ldquo;human-in-the-looprdquo; bottleneck exhibited by the Collision Avoidance (COLA) Concept of Operations (ConOps). The proposed solution is named SCRAM or Satellite C ...