NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
A 16.5-inch-long prototype of a robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons is reflected in the water’s surface during a test in a competition swimming pool in September 2024.
Posted November 25, 2024
Europa
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Ocean Worlds
Robotics
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
In a competition swimming pool, engineers tested prototypes for a futuristic mission concept: a swarm of underwater robots that could look for signs of life on ocean worlds.
Posted November 20, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Science & Research
As NASA prepares for long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars for the benefit of all, a habitat-growing concept selected Wednesday by the agency could help “grow” homes using fungi for future explorers.
Posted June 26, 2024
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
NIAC Studies
Lynn RothschildNASA Ames Research Center (ARC) A turtle carries its habitat. While reliable, it costs energy in transporting mass. NASA makes the same trade-off when it transports habitats and other structures off planet “on the back” of its missions.
Posted June 26, 2024
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Space technology might look a bit different decades from now. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program studies innovative, technically credible, advanced projects that could one day “change the possible” in aerospace.
Posted May 31, 2024
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC) has selected six visionary concept studies for additional funding and development.
Posted May 2, 2024
Glenn Research Center
Ames Research Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
NASA selected the 2024 Phase I awardees for its program to fund ideas that could  innovate for the benefit of all and transform future agency missions. From proposals to explore low Earth orbit to the stars, the 13 concepts chosen stem from companies and institutions across the United States. The NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) […]
Posted January 4, 2024
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

15
5
2
4
65
6
34
1
6
1
1
2
1
1
293
6
3
1
4
103
145
12
1
38
41
2
27
9
1
2
1
1
10
185
4
2
10
159
2
12
3
2
16
6
1
1
3
1
10
1
1
31
21
7
1
Io
3
4
1
1
17
530
3
5
227
2
1
1
1
3
4

Recent Posts

Newsletter Archive