{"id":19794,"date":"2019-09-26T13:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19794"},"modified":"2021-10-06T15:01:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T19:01:14","slug":"2019-niac-symposium-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19794","title":{"rendered":"2019 NIAC Symposium presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the presentations on leading edge space technologies given this week at the <a href=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/viewnow\/NIAC2019\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 NIAC Symposium<\/a> via the videos\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/viewnow\/NIAC2019\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Livestream<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/spacetech\/niac\/index.html\">NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)<\/a> program provides modest amounts of funding to projects that are too close to (or too over) the leading edge for the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/spacetech\/sbir_sttr\/index.html\">SBIR type<\/a> of research grants.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the symposium&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/atoms\/files\/niac_2019_symposium_agenda_huntsville.pdf\">agenda (pdf)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/viewnow\/NIAC2019\/images\/195658708\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agenda &#8211; Tues, Sept.24<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/viewnow\/NIAC2019\/images\/195658677\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agenda &#8211; Wed, Sept.25<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/viewnow\/NIAC2019\/images\/195658667\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agenda &#8211; Thurs,\u00a0 Sept.26<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below is a video of this morning&#8217;s session with the following speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phase I Fellow Joel Sercel, <em>Lunar-Polar Propellant Mining Outpost (LPMO): Affordable Exploration and Industrialization<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transastracorp.com\/\">TransAstra Corporation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2019 Phase I Fellow John Slough, <em>Crosscutting High Apogee Refueling Orbital Navigator (CHARON) for Active Debris Removal<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/John_Slough\">MSNW LLC<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2019 Phase I Fellow George Sowers, <em>Thermal Mining of Ices on Cold Solar System Bodies<\/em>, Colorado School of Mines<\/li>\n<li>2019 Phase I Fellow Robert Staehle, <em>Low-Cost SmallSats to Explore to Our Solar System&#8217;s Boundaries<\/em>, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"ls_embed_1569519682\" src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/7167144\/events\/8781337\/videos\/196913328\/player?width=500&amp;height=282&amp;enableInfo=true&amp;defaultDrawer=&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;mute=false\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1426220057\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1426220057&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkId=811d54246d72bdb81bf217376d6a29e7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Moon Rush: The New Space Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1426220057\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1426220057&amp;asins=1426220057&amp;linkId=6bc0ea2574961bc5c5407b80191a5cf2&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the presentations on leading edge space technologies given this week at the 2019 NIAC Symposium via the videos\u00a0on 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19794\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2019 NIAC Symposium presentations<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-59g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16793,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16793","url_meta":{"origin":19794,"position":0},"title":"Videos: Leading edge space technologies presented at the 2018 NIAC Symposium","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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