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TLC demonstrated a high performance remote Doppler Radar adjustable X-band to W-band transceiver chip that can perform well as a FMCW, super-heterodyne or pulse radar that meets space qualification specifications. This reconfigurable transceiver will serve as the basis for the precipitation & cloud measurement doppler radar system that will be developed, tested and delivered to NASA in this Phase ...

Cirrus Design proposes the development of a low cost, electromagnetic-type deice system that is integrable with Natural Laminar Flow (NLF) airfoils, on General Aviation (GA) aircraft. To compete with alternate modes of travel like the interstate highway system and airlines, GA aircraft must provide transportation that is fast, economical, safe, and reliably usable in any weather. The operation of ...

General aviation aircraft sales reached 18,000 new aircraft per year in the late 1970's before dropping off to what it is today. The need for personal aviation transportation is still prevalent, and small single engine aircraft that are produced using low cost manufacturing techniques can provide the performance and safety needed to make general aviation one of the best ways to travel, yet meet th ...

NASA has requested a robotic surrogate to work autonomously or to work alongside astronauts, for tool retrieval, space station construction, satellite maintenance and interplanetary habitat preparation for astronaut base camps. Human sizing, flexibility and fault tolerance are key needs that must be addressed. Proposed is a ten-axis robotic surrogate that is both highly dexterous and scaled to hum ...

We propose an innovative CGH-LUPI interferometer for high accuracy figure metrology of deep aspheric optics. The CGH-LUPI will use CGH-compensated Twyman-Green mode for testing of deep aspherics, but will operate equally well in normal Twyman-Green and Fizeau modes. It will differ significantly from previous aspheric interferometers in two key aspects. First, its elegant simplicity will allow easy ...

NASA operates manned spacecraft according to rigorously-defined standard operating procedures. Unfortunately, operating procedures are often written in different languages. For example, Orion will use automatic procedures written in SCL, the Spacecraft Command Language, while backup manual procedures may be developed in PRL, the Procedure Representation Language. However, procedures developed in ...

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During this phase I SBIR effort unique proven lattice and bandgap engineering techniques will be utilized to epitaxially grow InAlAs / InGaAs on GaN substrate for the design and fabrication of high power reconfigurable transceiver single MMIC.

In this SBIR Phase I program, we propose to fabricate high-efficiency and radiation hard solar cells based on InGaN material system that can cover the whole solar spectrum by adjusting the alloy composition. The main program objectives include the fabrication of InGaN-based solar cells on large diameter substrates, with external efficiency in excess of 35%, and capable of long life operation in h ...

Firefly, in collaboration with Rochester Institute of Technology, proposes an STTR program for the development of a wide-bandgap GaP-based space solar cell capable of efficient operation at temperatures above 300oC. Efficiency enhancement will be achieved by the introduction of InGaP quantum wells within the active region of the wide-gap base material. The introduction of these nanoscale features ...