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Scope Title:Advanced Techniques for Trajectory Design and OptimizationScope Description:NASA seeks innovative advancements in trajectory design and optimization for cislunar and interplanetary missions, including:Low-thrust trajectories in a multibody dynamical environment.Multiple small-body (moons, asteroids, and comets) exploration.Solar sail trajectories.Anytime abort (return to Earth) for cre ...

Scope Title:Lunar 3GPP Capability DevelopmentScope Description:Terrestrially, substantial investments have been made in the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards and technology over the past several decades of 3G/4G/5G development and operation. NASA is seeking to leverage this extensive development for the deployment of cost-effective and highly capable networking systems within ...

Scope Title:Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Sensors and ActuatorsScope Description:NASA seeks innovative, groundbreaking, and high-impact developments in spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) technologies in support of future science and exploration mission requirements. This subtopic covers mission-enabling technologies that have significant size, weight, power, cost, and per ...

Scope Title:Microbial Monitoring of Spacecraft Environments: Automated Sample Preparation for Sequencing-Based MonitoringScope Description:Microbial monitoring of the spaceflight environment, including surfaces, water, and air, is required by the medical operations community and enables crew health risk assessments. To date, this monitoring has relied on culture-based analysis in which the samples ...

Scope Title:Anti-Fog Solutions for Spacesuit HelmetScope Description:For the current Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit, an astronaut applies an anti-fog solution to the interior of the helmet bubble before each extravehicular activity (EVA). However, the anti-fog solution has been reported to cause eye discomfort during at least seven EMU EVAs when the anti-fog solution contacted the cr ...

Scope Title:Autonomous Medical OperationsScope Description:Current medical operations on the International Space Station (ISS) rely on real-time communication with NASA's Mission Control Center (MCC), leveraging telemedicine technologies to monitor and enable the optimization of Crew Health and Performance (CHP) measures. Near real-time communications allow MCC staff (Flight Surgeons, Flight C ...

Scope Title:Oxygen From RegolithScope Description:Lunar regolith is approximately 45% oxygen by mass. The majority of the oxygen is bound in silicate minerals. Previous efforts have shown that it is possible to extract oxygen from regolith using various techniques. NASA is interested in developing the supporting technologies that may enable or enhance the ability to extract oxygen from lunar regol ...

Scope Title:Lidar Remote-Sensing TechnologiesScope Description:This NASA SBIR subtopic seeks to advance laser/lidar technologies to overcome critical observational gaps in Earth and planetary science. NASA recognizes the potential of lidar technology to meet many of its science objectives by providing new capabilities or offering enhancements over current measurements of atmospheric, geophysical, ...

Scope Title:Component Advancements for Microwave Remote SensingScope Description:This subtopic supports technologies to aid NASA in its microwave sensing missions. Component advancements are desired to improve capabilities of active microwave remote sensing instruments, including improvements for classical radar/radio components—solid-state power amplifier (SSPA) technology, low-loss high-isolat ...

Scope Title:Components or Methods to Improve the Sensitivity, Calibration, or Resolution of Microwave/Millimeter-Wave RadiometersScope Description:NASA requires novel solutions to challenges of developing stable, sensitive, and high-resolution radiometers and spectrometers operating from microwave frequencies to 1 THz. Novel technologies are requested to address challenges in the current state of ...