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Mobitrum Corporation has demonstrated the feasibility in the Phase I of " A Wireless Sensor Portal Technology" and proposes a Phase II effort to develop a wireless portal device with Ultra-wideband transceiver targeted for NASA's Earth Science applications, Rocket Propulsion testing, and Center Management and Control for field personnel to send/receive digital and analog data from various sensors ...

The Advanced Space Suit carries consumable cooling water maintained at ambient pressure within a soft-walled, flexible reservoir. To ensure uninterrupted thermal control it is critical to monitor the volume of water remaining, but no known sensor is suitable for this task. Existing measurement techniques are unacceptably sensitive to the motion and varying geometry of the reservoir in microgravity ...

An important NASA mission is to detect, count and track near-earth asteroids for a variety of reasons including the hazards of collisions with our planet. Such asteroids are mostly dark, small and cold (~ 200K); so they are best detected in the very longwave infrared (VLWIR) wavelengths greater than ~ 12 microns where they glow brightest. To accomplish this, we developed in Phase I a record-perfor ...

Many space missions require relative navigation between several spacecraft systems or between spacecraft and rovers or remote controlled probes, such as spacecraft inspection, docking, rover control, formation flight, automatic landing of UAVs, and automatic material handling. Ranging and communication are key functions for these types of applications. The ranging update rate and data rate directl ...

The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) engine currently being developed at NASA Johnson is an attractive technology for minimizing transit time and crew harm during future space exploration missions. One of the critical challenges in developing a flight engine is thermal management of the high-temperature, superconducting electromagnets used to constrain and accelerate the pl ...

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APPLIED RESEARCH CORPORATION PROPOSES TO EXAMINE THE ESTIMATION OF GLOBAL RAINFALL BY LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS. WE WILL APPLY THE ANALYSIS ON THE GATE DATA, USING AS COVARIATES SUCH AS HEIGHT OF THE RAIN COLUMN, MICROWAVE TEMPERATURE ANDFRACTIONAL CLOUD COVER; IDENTIFY IMPORTANT PARAMETERS IN THE ESTIMATION PROCEDURE; DEVELOP LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS FOR RAINFALL ESTIMATION; APPLY THE ANALYS ...

In Phase I we demonstrated each aspect required for design and fabrication of Lyot Stops and Apodization Masks for use in a coronagraphic instrument and delivered working components to collaborators at NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute for evaluation. The technical achievements included: 1) first high quality mirror with carbon nanotubes 2) First nanotubes grown on metallic coatings ...

NASA's observational products generate petabytes of scientific data, which are highly underutilized due to computational requirements; disjoint data access protocols; and task-specific, non‑reusable code development. Our overall objective is to accelerate NASA science through development of an open-source, Python-based Pipeline for Observational Data Processing, Analysis, and Collaboration ( ...

The current methodology for testing the penetration resistance of textile materials to various chemical agents has a number of drawbacks, including significant uncertainties in the resulting data, inefficiency and expense, risk to test personnel, and limited range of test conditions. The objective of the proposed work is to apply unique computer models for textiles with accompanying experimental ...