NASA has selected 17 new concepts of futuristic space technology to study including a spacecraft that can harness the sun’s heat to propel it out of the solar system at unprecedented speeds, a small climbing robot that can explore subsurface caverns on Mars and a rotating habitat that can be used with artificial gravity, among others.
With the new round of NASA funding for Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a total of $5.1 million will be made available to 17 researchers. The NIAC program sparks ideas that could transform future NASA missions by creating breakthroughs.
The following are the titles of selected proposals for NIAC Phase I and Phase II grants:
NIAC Phase I Scholarship
- Rydberg Ice Radar
- Solid State Silent Propulsion for Advanced Air Traffic Vehicles
- Combined heat shield and solar thermal propulsion system for Oberth . maneuvers
- CREW HaT: Expanding Cosmic Radiation Using Torus Halbach لقة Ring
- Thread Digital Spacesuit: 4.0 high-performance spacesuit creation for Mars exploration
- Breathing Martian Air: Fixed and Portable O2 Generation
- Pi – Humanity’s highest defense
- Hybrid Observatory for Earth-Like Exoplanets (HOEE)
- In-situ Neutral Optical Velocity Analyzer for Atmospheric Exploration (INOVATE)
- Star explosion: adaptable and workable revolutionary structure
- Return of samples of planetary atmospheres and particle clouds for astrobiology
- Scope: ScienceCraft to explore outer planets
Give the second level of Nyak
- BREEZE: Bioinspired beam for harsh environments and exploration
- Space structures in kilometers scale from a single launch
- Atomic Planar Energy for Light Exploration (APPLE)
- ReachBot: a small robot to perform large mobile processing tasks in a Mars cave environment
- Swimming: experience with young independent swimmers
While Phase I recipients will receive $175,000 for nine months of study, Phase II recipients will receive $600,000 each for two years of study.
The agency said Saturday that the above projects are still in the early stages of development and are not considered official NASA missions.
More information can be found here.
– Bird-like inflatable drone to study Venus’ atmosphere – Spacecraft with enhanced radiation protection for its crew – Rotating habitat that can be used with artificial gravity – Sounds like science fiction – We selected futuristic space technology concepts to study: https://t.co/7rfIxVHoJd pic.twitter.com/OxPsErc4TB
– NASA Technology (NASA_Technology) 25 February 2022
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