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Through a combined analytical and experimental program, the effort proposed herein will develop an affordable, high-temperature capable composite material system to enable future small launch vehicle propulsion systems. Specifically, this program will focus on carbon-fiber reinforced carbon (C/C) materials with oxidation resistance provided via reactive melt infiltration (RMI) with Group IV A/B me ...

Safety and reliability of avionics equipment is crucial to the aviation industry, as failure of a single avionic component can lead to a catastrophic accident.nbsp; This is especially true of unmanned vehicles in which a fault or failure can rapidly lead to an unsafe state.nbsp; By implementing a system which can unobtrusively monitor the electronic health of the unmanned vehicle in real-time, rou ...

NASA requests a high spatial-resolution, wide-area scan of lunar soil composition, especially within impact craters, that may contain a higher concentration of usable material such as 3He and H2O. Soil with a higher hydrogen content will tend to slow down (i.e., thermalize) neutrons rather than absorb them, thereby depressing the fast and epithermal components of the neutron energy distribution wh ...

The goal of this research is to accelerate the use of NASArsquo;s hyperspectral data by combining powerful open source tools into an easily understood workflow that will distribute the computation of hyperspectral data across clusters of machines hosted in public cloud infrastructure, while also leveraging low cost object storage in order to maximize accessibility and use.nbsp; Hyperspectral data ...

Recently there has been a lot of interest in autonomous air vehicles operating in urban areas for a diverse set of applications such as disaster response, delivery of goods, agricultural support, and urban air mobility (UAM). While the technology for unmanned air vehicles operating day in and day out without constant human supervision is maturing steadily, much remains to be done to make these veh ...

ProtoInnovations, LLC proposes to research, design, develop, test, and validate an intelligent, robotic, lunar wheel (IRLW) with integrated sensing and perception subsystems to improve or enable robust mobility in planetary environments with priority on the Moon. The IRLW would aid rovers on the Moon during the Moon to Mars Campaign through in-wheel slip estimation, embedding estimation, and entra ...

A promising new class of working fluids / refrigerants (i.e. water azeotropes) has been identified, which offer the potential to provide advanced capabilities for next-generation spacecraft thermal control systems.nbsp;Water-based azeotropes have been identified as a class of working fluids that offer the following:nbsp;high thermodynamic performance than ammonia above 25ordm;C,nbsp;low global war ...

The socioeconomic geographic and demographic characteristics of rural and tribal communities putthem at even greater risk of environmental variations than their urban or suburban counterparts; thereforethey need different data-driven tools to help them increase community resilience. To facilitate long-termadaptation planning these communities need affordable flexible software applications that can ...

We aim to develop an electrical-sensor to detect low-levels of Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) in yeastinocula used to start large-scale ethanol cultures reducing the loss of productivity of the culture andthe incidence of "stuck" fermentations [Topic-Area 8.8: Biofuels and Bio-based products whereinwe will be "developing new and improved technologies that will lead to improvedcompetitiveness"]Currentl ...

Consumers are demanding replacement of synthetic food colors with compounds from naturalsources. We have prepared a stable water-soluble yellow-red extract from avocado seeds.AvoColor® has favorable colorant properties in a variety of food systems. Structural analysisidentified the major pigment as a novel glycosylated benzotropone. The overall goal of theproposed studies is to commercialize a "g ...