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Ensemble intends to develop a proof-of concept Neutral Density Monitoring and Alert Service. To establish an innovative and accurate space weather analytics service, Ensemble has partnered with CU Boulder's SWx-TREC, who offer leading space weather research-to-operations support. Ensemble will create the foundational architecture for Neutral Density Alerts and Notifications for commercial satellit ...

"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 ...

Anthropogenic Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI), or interference from human-generated sources, continues to plague spaceborne microwave radiometer and sounder instruments. Unmitigated RFI adversely affects the quality and reliability of Earth remote sensing data used for determining water availability, quality, and risk. Proliferation of wireless technologies, Earth-orbiting commercial satellite ...

For lunar (expandable to Martian) ISRU applications, a novel small SWaP LIBS suite, Fast Elemental and Molecular Interrogation Sensor (FEMIS), is designed to provide real-time identification of geochemical composition of lunar regolith using an innovative elemental + molecular LIBS technology. Having rapid and intense signal responses, obviating the need to physically touch the surface in order to ...

Herein, PSI propose a system-on-chip (SoC) solution for an entangled photon pair source (EPPS) based on thin-film lithium niobate on insulator (TFLNOI) photonic integrated circuits (PIC). Using integrated photonic devices such as fiber coupler, waveguide, modulator, splitter/combiner and micro-ring, the proposed EPPS can generate and process the entangled photons with high efficiency and speed. In ...

NASA is looking for advanced sensor technologies, especially wireless embedded sensor systems, to support rocket propulsion development. The enabling technology should provide a highly flexible instrumentation solution capable of monitoring remote or inaccessible measurement locations. This sensor system should substantially reduce operational costs and evolutionary improvements in ground, launch ...

We are proposing to develop a photonic integrated circuit for implementing a reusable delay line arrayed waveguide gratings (RDL-AWG) on a Si3N4/SiO2 platform for use as miniature spectrometers with high resolution (resolving power R gt; 10,000) and high dynamic range (gt; 4 orders of magnitude) in the 1.6 to 2.0 um band for fire detection. In Phase I of this proposal, an integrated high spectral ...

New textile and material solutions are needed to withstand the challenging environments that will be encountered during extended duration Lunar exploration missions. We propose a novel textile technology for environmental protection garment (EPG) outer layers that leverages space-proven materials together with a novel sintered powder textile surface modification process to impart superior dust res ...

Our innovation, Focused LIBS for Elements in Water IDentification (FLEW.ID), is a compact, cost-effective, and sensitive instrument for monitoring the elemental composition of aqueous solutions in plant growth systems on-board the International Space Station (ISS). FLEW.ID utilizes a miniaturized, low-pulse energy laser for performing laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) measurements that, ...