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Self-Sustaining Crop Production Unit
SBC: FREIGHT FARMS, INC. Topic: T604NASA's goals to explore deep space through manned missions requires development of self-sustaining life support systems. A diverse team from Freight Farms, Inc. have partnered with Clemson University to merge knowledge of sustainable farming with engineering expertise to create off-grid infrastructure for self-sustaining plant life that will assist NASA with their goals. Freight Farms' current pro ...
STTR Phase I 2016 National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
Spacecraft Swarm Coordination and Planning Tool
SBC: AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORPORATION Topic: T403Fractionated spacecraft architectures to distribute mission performance from a single, monolithic satellite across large number of smaller spacecraft, for missions like close proximity inspection, sparse aperture arrays, robotic assembly, servicing, refueling, etc., can enable higher mission capability, reconfigurability and robustness. This distributed satellite architecture, with large numbers o ...
STTR Phase I 2016 National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
AstroCube: An Asteroid Prospecting CubeSat Mission
SBC: BUSEK CO., INC. Topic: T402Busek, in partnership with Arizona State University (ASU), proposes to develop a robotic resource prospecting mission to a near-Earth asteroid using a 6U CubeSat, nicknamed "AstroCube". This ambitious mission is enabled by Busek's iodine-fueled BIT-3 RF ion propulsion system that can deliver ~1mN of thrust and ~2200sec of total Isp with 65W nominal input power. With 1.6kg of solid iodine propell ...
STTR Phase I 2016 National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
The Small Mixed Field Autonomous Radiation Tracker (SMART) Dosimeter
SBC: RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC. Topic: T602Active dosimeters for astronauts and space weather monitors are critical tools for mitigating radiation induced health issues or system failure on capital equipment. Commercial spaceflight, deep space flight, and satellites require smarter, smaller, and lower power dosimeters. There are a number of instruments with flight heritage, yet as identified in NASA's roadmaps, this technology does not l ...
STTR Phase I 2016 National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
Low-Cost, Scalable, Hybrid Launch Propulsion Technology
SBC: PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. Topic: T101Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), in collaboration Purdue University, proposes to develop a novel launch propulsion technology for rapid insertion of nano/micro satellites (~ 5-50 kg scale) into low earth orbit, with the potential to lower the current state-of-the-art launch stage cost by a factor of two. The technology employs a propulsion scheme comprising a storable liquid oxidizer and a unique sol ...
STTR Phase I 2016 National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
Compact Laser for In-Situ Compositional Analysis
SBC: Q-PEAK INCORPORATED Topic: T801In response to NASA?s solicitation for light-weight and power efficient instruments that enable in situ compositional analysis, Q-Peak in partnership with the University of Hawaii proposes to develop a compact, robust, and efficient instrument to combine all laser based spectroscopies capable of performing imaging, Raman, Laser Induced Breakdown, Laser Induced Fluorescence and LIDAR The main adva ...
STTR Phase II 2016 National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
Deep Inference and Fusion Framework Utilizing Supporting Evidence (DIFFUSE)
SBC: BOSTON FUSION CORP Topic: MDA15T001Combining information from disparate sensors can lead to better situational awareness and improved inference performance; unfortunately, traditional multi-sensor fusion cannot capture complex dependencies among different objects in a scene, nor can it exploit context to further boost performance. Integrating context information within a fusion architecture to reason cohesively about scenes of inte ...
STTR Phase I 2016 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Real-Time Health Management Portable Sensor for Solid Rocket Motors
SBC: PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. Topic: MDA14T004Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to design, develop, and demonstrate a portable, non-invasive, real-time sensor to assess the chemical and physical health of solid rocket motors as a function of age without affecting the motors integrity nor having direct contact with the propellant. In Phase II, a sensor to monitor specific gas species that are markers of the chemical and mechanical aging pr ...
STTR Phase II 2016 Department of DefenseMissile Defense Agency -
Small Probes for Orbital Return of Experiments (SPORE)
SBC: AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORPORATION Topic: T101Analogous to the CubeSat standardization of micro-satellites, the SPORE flight system architecture will utilize a modular design approach to provide low-cost on-orbit operation and recovery of small payloads. The Phase 1 investigation will evaluate a scalable flight system architecture consisting of a service module for on-orbit operations and deorbit maneuvering, and an entry vehicle to perform ...
STTR Phase I 2011 National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
Magnesium Hall Thruster for Solar System Exploration
SBC: BUSEK CO., INC. Topic: T301Busek proposes to prove the feasibility of a Mg Hall effect thruster system that would open the door for In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) based solar system exploration. Elemental magnesium has favorable thermophysical properties and is very easy to ionize. The estimated specific impulse for a high efficiency magnesium Hall thruster operating off of a standard 400 V power processing unit is 5 ...
STTR Phase I 2011 National Aeronautics and Space Administration