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ABI's innovation is a novel centrifugal pump, which will not have bearings, shaft, and seals. The impeller in this pump would rotate in a stable position in the center of the pump housing. The balance of all hydodynamic forces acting on impeller achieves stability. This pump will have high reliability, durability, and low cost in reduced mass, power and volume configuration, which are required in ...

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The flight envelope for X-34 ranges from subsonic to hypersonic with altitudes up to 50 miles. Designing a guidance law that performs across this broad flight envelope presents several challenges. Robustness to uncertain aerodynamics is of paramount importance because of the sparse amount of wind tunnel and flight test data that exists for reusable launch vehicles at hypersonic Mach numbers. The n ...

A critical barrier for GA to serve as viable fast personal transportation is the lack of a uniform, yet open-growth, travel information infrastructure. Dynamic Systems Integration¿s (DSI) vision is to create an innovative small airport-based information system for the 21st century GA traveler - SATSNet will serve as a vital enabler for NASA's General Aviation Transportation Vision. DSI will use i ...

Echo Technologies, Inc. proposes a Phase I program to demonstrate a new type of optical biosensor for monitoring the integrity of water reclamation systems being developed for manned spacecraft. The technical approach departs from the conventional ¿one-sensor, one-analyte¿ paradigm and will demonstrate the utility of an array of semi-selective optical transducers to detect classes of microorgani ...

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The proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons continues to pose a threat to U.S. national security. The threat to armed forces can be reduced by early detection of deleterious agents prior to any human contact. The probability of usingsuch weapons by a hostile force increases as they become more prevalent. This further emphasizes the need for field deployable systems that are c ...

NASA's Aviation Safety Program teams with the FAA and the aerospace industry to achieve large strides in aircraft safety under Pillar One of the Aerospace Technology Enterprise's Three Pillars for Success, Global Civil Aviation, and aims to improve aviation safety five-fold over the next 10 years and ten-fold over the next 25 years. To achieve this goal, improved health monitoring systems are requ ...