WASHINGTON, Could 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NASA has awarded almost $1.5 million to tutorial, non-profit, and enterprise organizations to advance state-of-the-art know-how that may play a key function within the company’s return to the Moon underneath Artemis, in addition to future missions to Mars.
Twenty-four initiatives from 21 organizations have been awarded underneath NASA’s Twin-Use Know-how Improvement Cooperative Settlement Notices, or CANs. The awardees additionally will obtain help from propulsion, area transportation, and science specialists at NASA’s Marshall House Flight Heart in Huntsville, Alabama.
“The Twin-Use Know-how Improvement Cooperative Settlement Discover permits NASA to collaboratively work with U.S. business and academia to develop wanted applied sciences,” mentioned Daniel O’Neil, supervisor, NASA Marshall’s Know-how Improvement Twin-Use CAN Program. “Merchandise from these cooperative agreements help the closure of recognized know-how gaps and allow the event of parts and methods for NASA’s Moon to Mars structure.”
These revolutionary initiatives embrace methods to make use of lunar regolith for development on the Moon’s floor utilizing smartphone video steerage sensors to fly robots on the Worldwide House Station, figuring out new battery supplies, and enhancing a neutrino particle detector.
The next is an entire record of awardees:
- Auburn College in Alabama
- Florida Institute of Know-how in Melbourne, Florida
- Florida Worldwide College in Miami
- Fronius USA in Portage, Indiana
- Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories in Tullahoma, Tennessee
- Louisiana State College in Baton Rouge
- Morgan State College in Baltimore
- Nanoracks (Voyager House) in Houston
- Northwestern College in Chicago
- Purdue College in West Lafayette, Indiana
- Southwest Analysis Institute in San Antonio
- Tethon 3D in Omaha, Nebraska
- College of Alabama in Huntsville
- College of California in Irvine
- College of Florida in Gainesville
- College of Illinois in Chicago
- College of North Texas in Denton
- College of Tennessee in Knoxville
- College of Tennessee House Institute
- Victory Options in Huntsville, Alabama
- Wichita State College in Kansas
The Florida Institute of Know-how, Northwestern College, and the College of Alabama had been awarded funding for 2 initiatives every.
Funding was out there for organizations targeted on supporting entrepreneurial analysis and innovation concepts that might advance the business area sector and profit future NASA missions.
Purposes at the moment are open for the 2024 solicitation cycle.
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