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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 -
Automated Manufacture of Damage Detecting, Self-Healing Composite Cryogenic Pressure Vessels
SBC: AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORPORATION Topic: T1002During Phase I, Aurora Flight Sciences and the University of Massachusetts Lowell propose to demonstrate the feasibility of enhancing a commercially available out-of-autoclave (OOA) carbon prepreg material system (e.g. IM7/5320) via embedded structural health monitoring (SHM) and self-healing capabilities, which can be manufactured by an automated fiber placement (AFP) machine. This proposed "sma ...
STTR Phase I 2014 National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
Novel Metal Organic Framework Synthesis for Spacecraft Oxygen Capture
SBC: BUSEK CO., INC. Topic: T602Busek and University of Utah propose to develop novel metal organic framework (MOF) material to efficiently capture oxygen in spacecraft cabin environment. The proposed novel MOF is postulated to be capable of separating oxygen from ambient air with high efficiency, and at the same time, be stable to moisture and resistant to decomposition. In Phase I, our team shall synthesize the proposed MOF an ...
STTR Phase I 2014 National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
In-Situ EBCs for High Performance Composite Propulsion Components
SBC: PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. Topic: T1202Silicon Carbide based ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) offer the potential to fundamentally change the design and manufacture of aeronautical and space propulsion systems to significantly increase performance and fuel efficiency over current metal-based designs. Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) and our team members at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) will develop, design and fabricat ...
STTR Phase I 2014 National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
Implementation & Flight Testing of IMPACT System for Autonomous ISR using Collaborating UAVs with Application to Wild Fire Monitoring
SBC: SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS CO INC Topic: T1502SSCI and MIT propose to further develop, implement and test the Integrated Mission Planning & Autonomous Control Technology (IMPACT) system software for autonomous ISR missions employing collaborating UAVs. IMPACT system is based on real-time learning about dynamic and stochastic environments, and on a capability to autonomously react to contingencies while satisfying the mission objectives and th ...
STTR Phase II 2014 National Aeronautics and Space Administration