Xplore sent me this press release: NASA $2M Grant Advances Study to Directly Image Exoplanets Light Years Away Xplore’s Advanced Solar Sail Design will be the Fastest Spacecraft Ever Made, Expanding Xplore’s Reach Beyond the Inner Solar System Xplore Inc., a commercial space exploration company providing Space as a Service™ today announced they and their … Continue reading NIAC project aims to image exoplanets with solar gravity lens system enabled by advanced solar sail→
Check out the presentations on leading edge space technologies given this week at the 2019 NIAC Symposium via the videos on Livestream. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program provides modest amounts of funding to projects that are too close to (or too over) the leading edge for the usual SBIR type of research grants. Here … Continue reading 2019 NIAC Symposium presentations→
Check out the latest leading edge technology ideas presented this week by winners of NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program grants at the 2018 NIAC Symposium underway in Boston till Thursday. The agenda (pdf) lists the talks and you can watch the presentations at the NIAC 2018 Livestream. Below are videos of three of the sessions … Continue reading Videos: Leading edge space technologies presented at the 2018 NIAC Symposium→
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program held its annual NIAC Symposium this week in Raleigh, North Carolina. Videos of the presentations are now available on Livestream. (See also postings for previous NIAC symposiums.) Here is a sampling of the sessions: Joshua Rovey, University of Missouri, Rolla, Experimental Demonstration and System Analysis for Plasmonic Force Propulsion; Philip … Continue reading Videos: Presentations at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium→
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) office funds studies into all sorts of leading and beyond leading edge ideas for space development. This past week NIAC held its fall symposium in Seattle, Washington – Fall NIAC Symposium Flyer (pdf)) Fall NIAC Symposium Agenda (pdf). Many interesting talks were given and you can see them in the archive … Continue reading Videos: Talks given at NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Fall Symposium→