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The SBIR focus area of Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) includes the suite of technologies for atmospheric entry as well as descent and landing on both atmospheric and non-atmospheric bodies. EDL mission segments are used in both robotic planetary science missions and human exploration missions beyond Low Earth Orbit, and many technologies have an application to emerging commercial space capabili ...

As NASA embarks on its mission for human exploration of the Moon as a step towards the human mission to Mars, taking full advantage of the potential offered by new and existing technologies will be critical to enabling sustainable Lunar and Mars presence. Manufacturing and construction approaches tailored to the Lunar environment will pave the way toward addressing challenges such as lowering the ...

Ground processing technology development prepares the agency to test, process, launch, and recover the next generation of rockets and spacecraft in support of NASA's exploration objectives by developing the necessary ground systems, infrastructure, and operational approaches for terrestrial and off-planet surface systems. This topic seeks innovative concepts and solutions for both addressing long- ...

This focus area includes tools and technologies that contribute to both the Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP) and the Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP) encompassing technologies in all six Strategic Thrusts within the NASA Aeronautics Mission Directorate (ARMD). AAVP develops the tools, technologies, and concepts that enable new generations of civil aircraft that are safer, mor ...

Digital Transformation is the strategic transformation of an organization's products, processes, and capabilities, driven and enabled by rapidly advancing and converging digital technologies, to dramatically enhance the organization's performance and efficiency. These advancing digital technologies include software, cloud computing, data management and analytics, artificial intelligence, mobile ac ...

Scope Title:Integrated Data Uncertainty Management and Representation for Trustworthy and Trusted Autonomy in SpaceScope Description:Multi-agent cyber-physical-human (CPH) teams in future space missions must include machine agents with a high degree of autonomy. In the context of this subtopic, by “autonomy” we mean the capacity and authority of an agent (human or machine) for independent deci ...

Scope Title:Site Preparation and Bulk Regolith InfrastructureScope Description:It is envisioned that some of the first possible lunar infrastructures will be structures composed of bulk regolith and rocks. The intent of this subtopic is to develop lunar civil engineering designs, processes, and technologies that produce such structures, and develop concepts of operations (ConOps) for their constru ...

Scope Title:Textiles for Extreme Lunar Environments and High Oxygen AtmospheresScope Description:The environmental protection garment (EPG) is the outer component of the current spacesuit, which is called the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU). The xEMU is the new spacesuit developed for returning to the Moon. The EPG is a multilayered component consisting of fabrics and thin films. Each layer of ...

Scope Title:Advanced Concepts for Lunar and Martian Propellant Production, Storage, and UsageScope Description:This subtopic seeks technologies related to cryogenic propellant (e.g., hydrogen, oxygen, and methane) production, sensors and instrumentation, storage, and usage to support NASA's in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) goals. This includes a wide range of applications, scales, and envir ...

Scope Title:Sustainable Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Extraction and TransformationScope Description:Component and subsystem technologies are sought to demonstrate sustainable, energy-efficient extraction of carbon dioxide (CO2) from a defined planetary or habitable atmosphere fully integrated with CO2 transformation into one or more stable products such as manufacturing feedstock polymers or readily ...