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Ames Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Greater than the sum of its parts: NASA tests the capability of a system that includes simple robots, structural building blocks, and smart algorithms to build functional, high-performance large-scale structures, ultimately enabling autonomous deep-space infrastructure.
Posted January 17, 2024
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
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Marshall Space Flight Center
The powerful gravity fields of black holes can devour whole planets’ worth of matter – often so violently that they expel streams of particles traveling near the speed of light in  formations known as jets.
Posted January 16, 2024
Nicole Aunapu Mann
Ames Research Center
Astronauts
Becoming an Astronaut
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NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren talk with students and families at Youth Alliance, a community organization in Hollister, California, on Jan.
Posted January 11, 2024
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Back to ESI Home Advancing Radiation-Hardened Photon Counting Sensor Technologies Advancements in Predicting Plume-Surface Interaction Environments During Propulsive Landings Advancing the Performance of Refrigeration Systems Based on the Elastocaloric Effect
Posted January 10, 2024
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Patrick Shamberger Texas A&M University Elastocaloric materials heat up or cool down when stress is applied to them or removed.
Posted January 10, 2024
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Nenad Miljkovic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Traditional elastocaloric refrigeration systems are based on uniaxial compression of the elastocaloric material which makes them highly constrained by actuator requirements, the physics of column buckling, and limited surface area for heat transfer.
Posted January 10, 2024
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David Scarborough Auburn University Professor Scarborough will develop and implement tools to extract critical data from experimental measurements of plume surface interaction (PSI) to identify and classify dominant regimes, develop physics-based, semi-empirical models to predict the PSI phenomena, and quantify the uncertainties.
Posted January 10, 2024
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Donald Figer Rochester Institute of Technology The objective of this grant is to investigate methods to reduce and mitigate the effects of radiation damage on single-photon counting and photon number resolving optical imaging detectors.
Posted January 10, 2024
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Laura Villafane University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rocket engine exhaust during lunar landings can blow away a large amount of lunar regolith causing damage to nearby hardware and the landing spacecraft itself. The complex physics governing this behavior is not well understood making it hard to predict and mitigate its effects.
Posted January 10, 2024
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Karl Berggren Massachusetts Institute of Technology Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are a promising new ultra-sensitive and low-noise detectors for applications ranging from deep-space exploration to ultrafast space-based optical quantum communication networks.
Posted January 10, 2024
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