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The Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tracking Layer is tasked with providing global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems. They are currently leading the development of an Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Missile Tracking satellite constellation in LEO as part of the DoD’s future threat-driven National Defense Space A ...

In PhII, AASC matured a Metal Plasma Thruster (MPT) to TRL6. This thruster (www.aasc.space) has no moving parts, uses solid metal propellant, a lt;45V Power Processor Unit and requires a DC power input of only 7.3V - 23V from the spacecraft and a start/stop command. The on-board processor controls the firing sequence of the pulsed thruster fornbsp;orbit raising/lowering or precisenbsp;attitude con ...

Motiv Space Systems (Motiv) proposes a novel integrated, distributed actuation system which operates in extreme environments of the Moon and Mars.nbsp; The Distributed Extreme Environments Drive System (DEEDS) is a complete drive actuation system for use across a broad spectrum of use cases including ISRU systems, robotics, payload off-loading systems, and mobile vehicles on the Lunar and Martian ...

NASA#39;s new mission requirements for complex autonomous operations, high-end sensor processing, swarm/constellation management, planetary/lunar landing, and autonomous exploration missions, require novel onboard processing approaches because rad-hard processors do not offer enough performance and COTS alone do not meet criticality requirements. The significance of Troxel Aerospacersquo;s SEFI/SE ...

Makel Engineering, Inc. proposes to develop a highly compact Environmental Microsensor Array (EMMA) as a payload for free flying Intra-Vehicular Activity (IVA) robots, such as NASArsquo;s Astrobee, supporting the Integrated System for Autonomous and Adaptive Caretaking (ISAAC) project. EMMA will include machine learning to translate and interpret onboard sensor data (e.g., chemicals, temperature, ...

Development of new air vehicles (e.g., personal air vehicles, urban air taxis, etc.) have led to a proliferation of Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) vehicle concepts including electric vehicles, many of which are well-funded and are in various stages of prototype development and test. The large number of vehicles that are being designed to ferry passengers in dense urban environments will almos ...

With incoming hypersonic and ballistic threats, the Optical Intersatellite Link (OISL) system must transfer large quantities of data in real-time across a mesh network of satellite crosslinks, and back-and-forth with the ground. Very high-speed, low-latency, mesh network encryptors are available on the ground; however, no interoperable National Security Agency (NSA) certified devices currently exi ...

Fibertek proposes to develop a TRL 6 spaceflight prototype multi-wavelength seed laser module that would scale deep space data rates to 1-2 Gbps. The seed laser is capable of supporting WDM across all CCSDS PPM pulse formats. These enhancements increase the data capacity scaling by gt;10x over the current state of the art high power WDM transmitter enabling the next generation of high speed DSOC l ...

Future human extraterrestrial missions will require export and landing of countless payloads on the lunar and Martian surfaces. Such a quantity and rate of payload delivery will require cost-effective and rapid manufacturing of many large Thermal Protection Systems (TPS). Intelligent Optical Systems proposes to develop a modular system for in-situ bonding and curing of thermoset resin to the space ...

Space Micro proposes an aggressive, but achievable, space image processing and radiation effects experiment to demonstrate an advanced COTS processor and Single Board Computer (SBC) in the MISSE-FF space radiation environment. Space Micro will focus on the rapid development of a COTS-based SBC with electronics monitoring and SEU/SEFI error reporting system for delivery to Alpha Space for MISSE-FF ...