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April 6th, 2023The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has awarded six concepts to help shape air and space travel decades in the future. Each of the six fellows will receive up to $600,000 over two years to develop their concepts.
Introducing the new round of Phase II awards that funded these six researchers:
Image credit: Christopher Morrison
The Nyx Mission to Observe the Universe from Deep Space – Enabled by EmberCore, a High Specific Power Radioisotope Electric Propulsion System by Christopher Morrison, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation in Seattle.
Image credit: Darmindra Arumugam
Quantum Rydberg Radar for Surface, Topography, and Vegetation by Darmindra Arumugam, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Image credit: Steven Barrett
Silent, Solid-State Propulsion for Advanced Air Mobility Vehicles by Steven Barrett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Image credit: Ronald Polidan
FarView Observatory – A Large, In-Situ Manufactured, Lunar Far Side Radio Array by Ronald Polidan, Lunar Resources, Inc. in Houston.
Image credit: Philip Lubin
Planetary Defense -The PI Approach by Philip Lubin, University of California, Santa Barbara, California.
Image credit: Lynn Rothschild
A Flexible, Personalized, On-Demand Astropharmacy by Lynn Rothschild, NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
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