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Scope Title:Spacecraft Autonomous Agent Cognitive Architectures for Human ExplorationScope Description:Autonomous and partially-autonomous systems promise the opportunity for a future with self-driving automobiles, air taxis, packages delivered by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and more revolutionary Earth applications. At the same time, it is expected that future NASA deep space missions will h ...

Scope Title:Development, Design, and Implementation of Fault Management TechnologiesScope Description: NASA’s science program has well over 100 spacecraft in operation, formulation, or development, generating science data accessible to researchers everywhere. As science missions have increasingly complex goals—often on compressed timetables—and have more pressure to reduce operation costs, s ...

Scope Title:Codesign and Development of Autonomous Systems for Persistent OperationsScope Description:Space operations are on the cusp of a revolutionary new operational paradigm that leverages modular systems and recurring robotic visits to “persistent platforms” enabling platform assembly, maintenance, repair, and enhancement. Persistent platforms require persistent operations, and persisten ...

Scope Title:Robotic Mobility, Manipulation, and SamplingScope Description: The NASA Planetary Science Decadal Survey for the 2023-2032 decade identifies missions to solar system bodies, including to comets, asteroids, Ceres, Enceladus, Titan, Venus, Mars, and Earth's Moon, which require new mobility, manipulation, and sampling technologies. Mobility systems will provide access to more challeng ...

Scope Title:Modular Autonomous Robotic Docking and Mating InterfacesScope Description:NASA requests novel conceptual designs for an autonomous direct-dock system for small satellites that enables advanced science and exploration missions and addresses STMD roadmap gaps. There is a need to reduce the system size, weight, and power requirements of existing docking and grapple technologies so they ca ...

Scope Title:Sensing and Perception Software for Autonomous Manipulation and Utilization TasksScope Description:Accurate sensing and perception is critical for achieving the autonomous manipulation and task performance capabilities required for future lunar missions (both on Gateway and on the lunar surface). Limited situational awareness, time delay, data latencies, etc., prevent direct, real-time ...

Scope Title:Free-Space Optical Communications TechnologiesScope Description:This Free-space Long Range Optical Communications subtopic seeks innovative technologies for advancing free-space optical communications by pushing future data volume returns to and from space missions in multiple domains. Modulation and signaling techniques for long range optical communications should serve multiple funct ...

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 ...