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Phytodetectors will design and engineer a synthetic biological pump circuit to increase the volume of water produced via photosynthetic desalination. This project builds off previous technology designed by Phytodetectors: a mangrove-inspired ultra-filter that allows plants to purify salt water as well as secrete water with properties comparable to bottled water. The partnership seeks to demonstrat ...

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 ...

Ujima Digital and the United States Air Force Academy are partnered to deliver a collaborative, SysML enabled model-based enterprise platform for operating and managing their numerous facilityrsquo;s product lifecycles. A model-based enterprise will not only give NASA visibility into the operational consumption of their facilities, but it will also allow for teams to collaborate around engineering ...

High concentrations of supplemental oxygen are used routinely by pilots and divers prior to and during missions to prevent and treat decompression sickness, avoid detection during covert operations, and to support oxygenation following pulmonary injury. Due to pulmonary oxygen toxicity (PO2T), exposure limits are imposed to prevent damage to pulmonary tissues. Current policy focuses on preventing ...

We propose a construction system that magnetically beneficiates the soil to create a layered surface then sinters it relying on antenna near-field energy absorbance. The layering will consist of a highly microwave-susceptible, highly thermal-conductive top layer, on top of nbsp;a poorly microwave-susceptible, poorly thermal-conductive sublayer. The antenna system will be optimized for magnetically ...

Understanding the behavior of our planetrsquo;s atmosphere and its interaction with the surface (i.e. the planetary boundary layer) is key to developing accurate weather and climate models, which impacts many sectors of global society, including agriculture, transportation/logistics, health/medical, financial, and manufacturing/technology. Hyperspectral microwave sounding is a powerful method for ...

The development and scaling of a nationwide fault-tolerant quantum network is of crucial interest to both the domestic and international scientific community. To achieve large scale quantum networks, quantum teleportation, the technique in which quantum information (a.k.a. qubits) is transferred between a sender and receiver, needs to be realized in a low-cost, size, weight and power (low-CSWAP) f ...

NASArsquo;s requirements for improved measurement and analysis techniques for propulsion system performance characteristics for rocket propulsion systems. IFOS is developing a scalable, wirelessly networked, photonic instrumentation solution for measurement of strain and temperature, and derived acoustics, pressure, and heat flux. IFOSrsquo; chip-scale solution leverages the latest advances in pho ...

Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods for the fabrication of thermal protection systems (TPS) for spacecraft is costly, labor-intensive, and limited to on-Earth production. To address these shortcomings, Mainstream, in collaboration with the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) lab at Virginia Tech (VT), proposes to develop a large-format additive manufactu ...

The recent upsurge in development and prospective applications of Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles has the potential to transform the landscape for vertical flight.nbsp; Among the several classes of aircraft under development for projected Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) missions and activity are vehicles with distributed multiple-rotor systems.nbsp; Such multicopters offer poten ...