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"Jaia Robotics’ low-cost, micro-sized hybrid uncrewed surface/underwater vehicles called JaiaBotsTM can be deployed from the shore or vessels. The system enables truly affordable multivehicle operations that can be scaled to provide wide area synoptic data collection. In the proposed effort the project team will develop a JaiaBot which is air-deployable from sonobuoy launch tubes to collect atmo ...

A cloud based system for sharing bathymetric survey data collected by FarSounder customers is proposed as a way(1) to improve safety of navigation on our oceans, (2) to collect measurements for the broader scientific and maritime communities and (3) to generally explore and broadly share information about our oceans in fulfillment of ideas proposed in Topic 9.3 “The Changing Ocean”, and in acc ...

Silicon organic hybrid (SOH) EO modulators are a leading potential solution to the limitations of silicon pn junction EO modulators, including poor modulation efficiency, high optical loss, and limited EO bandwidth, which constrain the performance of silicon photonics (SiPh) PICs. In SOH modulators, the tight confinement of optical and RF fields inside the organic EO (OEO) material, combined with ...

USNC-Tech is proposing a modular radioisotope power system. This system would enable a low-cost flight demonstration of a high efficiency dynamic power system using a low-cost radioisotope and maintaining compatibility with thenbsp;GPHS Pu-238 power source due to its modular design. Co-60nbsp;is routinely produced in 500 W scale quantities needed for a dynamic power system demonstration. While int ...

Hybird Space Systems (Hybird) is developing a retrobraking propulsion system, named RT-5X, whose initial application is focused on deorbit of spacecraft in LEO. RT-5X combines the ldquo;smartrdquo; advantages of liquid propulsion (throttleability, restartablility, low impulse bit) with the operational simplicity of solid propulsion (high reliability, low-cost design, storability) in an entirely ld ...

We propose to develop and demonstrate a compact high efficiency power beaming system that couples a 1.5-micron laser source to a high quantum efficiency, low cost, GaSb-based infrared photovoltaics receiver for agile power distribution from the edge of a moon crater to a charging station.nbsp;This could serve as a first step toward eye safe power dense wireless energy transfer. With the use of con ...

In noise testing Advanced Aircraft Mobility vehicles, sound spheres represent directivity patterns. The current standard measurement approach is to fly or hover the vehicle over an array of microphones and project the microphone spectra onto the sphere. The quality of the results is limited by the finite number of microphones, uncontrolled acoustic propagation effects related to weather, and backg ...

Starfish Space envisions a future where autonomous robotic interaction in space is ubiquitous, enabling a thriving in-space community of scientific research, business, habitable platforms, exploration systems, and more. An underlying capability critical to enabling these missions is a universally-compatible, non-destructive capture system for in-space docking in all orbits. The ability to rendezvo ...

A robust relative navigation software capability is a key enabler of all RPOD missions, and therefore an essential technology to unlock ISAM capabilities. There are two areas of development that are needed to advance relative navigation towards onboard autonomous viability: 1) Improvement of machine vision and image processing performance in spaceflight applications and 2) Development of a navigat ...

It is important to consider lithium-ion battery limitations particularly regarding temperature range, to ensure safe and successful mission outcomes. We have developed a gel polymer electrolyte that meets stringent requirements of high safety, stability, and non-flammabilitynbsp;for implantable medical devices and plannbsp;to further developnbsp;this electrolyte for use in cells operating in extre ...