NIAC
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Subsurface oceans on moons are some of the most promising places to look for life beyond Earth. NASA is now funding a project to develop a swarm of small swimming robots that would explore these alien oceans for signs of extraterrestrial life.
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NASA is exploring the potential of building an enormous radio telescope on the far side of the Moon in a huge impact crater. The telescope’s reflector would be comprised of a 1-km diameter wire mesh, pulled into place by wall-climbing robots.
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NASA wants help designing a vital element of a rover that could one day explore Earth’s hellish twin, Venus. The component would allow the rover to safely explore the surface, and must be capable of enduring a brutal alien environment.
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From smart spacesuits to solar surfing, 18 high-tech projects have been selected for the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program that is designed to push the envelope of space technology. The dozen and a half early studies are being funded to aid in the exploration of the Moon and beyond.
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With an estimated 7,000 tonnes of debris in orbit around our planet, space junk is increasingly becoming a major problem. An innovative solution dubbed the Brane Craft has just been awarded US$500,000 from NASA to further develop the concept that is designed to scoop up this junk.
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NASA has announced its 2016 selections for Phase 1 of its Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. As usual, the first round contains an impressive array of weird and wonderful technological concepts with the potential to revolutionize space exploration.
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NASA is looking to explore the potential of using "windbots" to investigate the skies above Jupiter. The agency has invested US$100,000 of NIAC funds in the project, which could potentially revolutionize how we gain data on some of the most inhospitable planets in our solar system.
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The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts NIAC program has announced 15 phase I winners in its quest to make science fiction science fact.
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One possibility for replacing the Hubble space telescope is the Aragoscope from the University of Colorado Boulder, which uses a gigantic orbital disk instead of a mirror to produce images 1,000 times sharper than the Hubble's best efforts.
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NASA has chosen five studies to advance to phase 2 of its Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program. They represent the most promising technological concepts with the greatest potential to revolutionize the agency's approach to the building and operating of aerospace systems.
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NASA has approved 28 proposals for advanced technology concepts that will now go on for further study and development.
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Under NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Program, a JPL researcher has proposed the use of a pair of CubeSats for an autonomous mission to retrieve samples from Phobos, Mars' larger moon.
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