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In early 2021, the FAA issued a ruling that all UAVs over 250g weight would now have to report their ID, location, and a few other parameters in real time, in a manner that could be received by users on the ground. KalScott aims to develop and demonstrate RemoteID devices to comply with this rule. In this Phase I SBIR project, KalScott developed and demonstrated a network-based RemoteID device (ba ...

Our innovation offers NASA and the aviation community a robust, extensible data processing and analysis infrastructure that supports predicting the near-future status of terminal airspace to aid decision-making. The Robust Analysis for Predictive In-time Decision Support (RAPIDS) will generate short-term horizon forecasts (10-20 minutes) for the state of the airspace. RAPIDS combines known procedu ...

NASA scientific exploration missions require battery systems to power equipment and telecommunications critical to mission objectives. NASArsquo;s mission profiles demand the highest achievable specific energy as well as operability under extreme conditions of temperature, vacuum, and radiation. While rechargeable battery technologies continue to advance the state-of-the-art to meet NASArsquo;s ne ...

NASArsquo;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) developed mechanically pumped single-phase fluid loop (MPFL) thermal system for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover fluid loop that used mixing or splitting passive thermal control valve (TCV) to control the fluid flow path during different environmental scenarios. NASA has also used passively actuated TCVs in the MPFL for the past robotic space miss ...

To enhance the design of backend spectrometers included in NASArsquo;s microwave radiometers, ADSANTEC will develop a wide bandwidth (gt;30 Ghz) radiation-hardnbsp;digitizer with more than 6 effective bit resolution utilizingnbsp;a space qualified US located semiconductor foundry. The scalable digitizer with a sampling rate up to 25 Gs/snbsp;will be able to directly interface to space-qualified Xi ...

We are proposing Kerr-soliton On-chip Microcombs with Optimized Dispersion for Octave-spanning Output (KOMODO). The KOMODO platform will be a chip-scale optical frequency comb compatible with compact, deployable, next-generation optical atomic clocks and quantum sensors. Our proposed solution brings together engineered nano-scale waveguides, precision laser stabilization techniques, and advanced p ...

The purpose of this effort is to develop and demonstrate a compact and high-performance hyperspectral imager designed specifically for remote sensing of aquatic systems/ecosystems.nbsp; The proposed design utilizes anamorphic optics, a unique segmented dual blaze grating, and innovative filter placement to maximize the instrumentrsquo;s sensitivity and dynamic range.nbsp; These innovations enable ...

The proposed innovation is aimed at the Focus Area 10 - Advanced Telescope Technologies, subtopic S2.03 - Advanced Optical Systems and Fabrication/Testing/Control Technologies for Extended-Ultraviolet/Optical and Infrared Telescope (Scope Title: Fabrication, Test, and Control of Advanced Optical Systems). Specifically, NASA needs a reliable, easy-to-use metrology solution that allows highly precis ...

Battery health monitoring is particularly crucial for space applications since battery shutoff or complete drain can be catastrophic. The battery management system (BMS) is vital to avoid such instances. Conventional on-board BMS are currently limited to the monitoring of extrinsic parameters including voltage, current, and temperature. From these, batteryrsquo;s state of charge (SoC) and state of ...

Dynovasrsquo; Motorless Extension, Leveling, and Tracking (MELT) array system delivers a modular, scalable power solution for lunar missions at a mass efficiency of gt; 100 W/kg and a volume efficiency gt;22 kW/m3. The MELT system will be demonstrated at TRL 6 via operation of extension/retraction and rotating caterpillar actuator systems in a simulated lunar south pole environment (- 80 deg;C to ...