technology development at nasa
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John W. Hines Chief Technologist
NASA-Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley... …Innova0on starts here August, 2012
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NASA-Ames Research Center
San Francisco Bay Area
CA, USA
in Silicon Valley... …Innova0on starts here
Stanford
Ames
NASA Ames:7 Decades of Innova3on
1940 Conical Camber
Li2ing Body
Swept-‐ Back/Wing
Transonic Flow
Flight Simulator
Hypervelocity Free Flight Arcjet Research
1960
Life Sciences Research
Viking
80x120 Wind Tunnel
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010+
CFD
Air TransportaRon
System
ER-‐2
Astrobiology NASA Research Park
One of the World’s Fastest OperaRonal Supercomputers
SOFIA
Kepler
LCROSS
1950
Flight Research
Blunt Body Concept
Pioneer
Pioneer Venus
Tiltrotor
Kuiper Observatory
X-‐36
Galileo
Nanotechnology
Lunar Prospector
NASA Lunar Science InsRtute
TekRtes Human Centered CompuRng
PhoneSat
OOREOS
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• ISS • Free Flyers • Asteroids • Moon • Mars • Beyond
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Space Missions Directorate
-Atmospheric Composition -Weather -Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems -Water & Energy Cycles -Climate Variability & Change -Earth Surface & Interior
• Heliosphere • Magnetospheres • Space Environment • Inner Solar System
• Outer Solar System • Small Bodies of the Solar System • Mars Program Planning
Planets Around Other Stars The Big Bang Dark Energy, Dark Matter Stars Galaxies Black Holes
Discover how the universe works, explore how the universe began and developed into its present form, and search for Earth-like planets.
Understanding the Sun, Heliosphere, and Planetary Environments as a single connected system
To develop a scientific understanding of Earth's system and its response to natural or human-induced changes, and to improve prediction of climate, weather, and natural hazards.
Observation and discovery of our solar system’s planetary objects. …strategy based on progressing from flybys, to orbiting, to landing, to roving and finally to returning samples from planetary bodies
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Mars Science Laboratory
Kepler is a space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-‐like planets orbi3ng other stars. The spacecraE, named in honor of the 17th-‐century German astronomer Johannes Kepler,
Launch date: March 7, 2009 3:49 AM Orbit height: 92,955,807 miles (149,597,871 km) Speed on orbit: 3.661 miles/s (5.892 km/s) Cost: US$ 550 million Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force StaRon Launch Complex 17 Manufacturer: Ball Aerospace
Kepler Planet Count Confirmed Planets: 74 Planet Candidates: 2,321 Eclipsing Binary Stars: 2,165
Kepler Spacecraft
Photometer | The Kepler photometer is basically a Schmidt telescope design with a 0.95-‐meter aperture and a 105 square deg (about 12 degree diameter) field-‐of-‐view (FOV). It is pointed at and records data from just a single group of stars for the three and one-‐half or more year duraRon of the mission. The photometer is composed of just one "instrument," which is, an array of 42 CCDs (charge coupled devices). Each 50x25 mm CCD has 2200x1024 pixels.
hJp://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/
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Small Satellites
Synthetic Biology
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Innovation in Small Satellites • Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) - Lunar Kinetic Impactor Mission to explore
the presence and nature of water ice on the Moon.
• Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) - Will seek new information about the tenuous lunar atmosphere and dust environment.
• Pharmasat - Fully-automated, miniaturized triple cubesat
spaceflight system for biological payloads.
• IRIS will use a solar telescope and spectrograph to explore the solar chromospheres.
• O/OREOS - studies how exposure to space changes organic molecules and biology.
GeneSat-‐1 PharmaSat-‐1
Nanosail-‐D O/OREOS
ISS National Laboratory – ISS Utilization
Platform-Agnostic Space Payloads
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European Space Agency Astronaut Thomas Reiter, Expedition 13 Flight Engineer, installing the EMCS facility into the EXPRESS Rack 3A.
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Multi-user EXPRESS Racks Middeck locker scale instruments in various research disciplines such as biotechnology and plant research
Sub-rack class payloads and facilities
CubeLab NanoLab
J. Robinson
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Standardized nanosat payloads
6U nanosat dispenser
Green propulsion
Comsat and ESPA CompaRble
Low-‐cost and versaRle plakorm
Modularity enables payload,
propulsion, and
launch flexibility.
Planetary Hitch Hiker
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Heliophysics Priorities
CINEMA
IRIS
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Innovative SmallSat Architectures
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• Food Produc3on • Biological-‐ISRU • Advanced Sensors • Advanced Materials • Life support loop-‐closure
• Space Medicine • Life Detec3on • Scien3fic Discovery
Vision: To harness biology in reliable, robust, engineered systems to support NASA’s explora<on and science missions, to improve life on Earth, and to help shape NASA’s future
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Innovation in Science
Sensors and Instruments
Synthetic Biology and Other Biological Applications And Technologies
UAVs and other Platforms to study storms and fires
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Innovation in Aeronautics
Hybrid Rockets Airships
Biomass energy for fuel
Advanced aircraft concepts
Fuel Cells
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Innovation in Technology
Exploration Technologies
Supercomputing
Visualization
Human-Machine Interfaces
Re-entry Technologies
• Extends the reach of the Earth’s Internet across the solar system via “Disrup0on Tolerant Networking” (DTN) communica0ons protocols
• Layered open architecture supports evolu0on and interna0onal interoperability
Solar System Internet
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Possible Areas of Future Activities
Characteristics: * • Anticipatory (ability to anticipate future events on basis of current data) • Collaborative (ability to cooperate with other systems) • Curious (motivation to explore, investigate, and discover) • Self-modeling (ability to reason about its own changing status) • Adaptive (functionality change over time to meet changing needs) • Self-Repairing (ability to reconfigure and/or repair itself autonomously) • Biologically-inspired sensor fusion & sensory-guided motor control • Portability (ability to be effortlessly mobile with no compromise of function)”
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Space Technology Grand Challenges
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Space Technology Grand Challenges: a set of important space-‐related problems that must be solved to efficiently and economically achieve our missions.
We will use the Space Technology Grand Challenges with the Space Technology Roadmaps to priori3ze our technology por[olio with an eye towards the Agency’s future.
More InformaRon at hlp://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/strategic_integraRon/grand_challenges_detail.html
Technology and InnovaRon Strategy … Addressing Global Needs
DoD, Other Gov, InternaRonal
Commercial, Entrepreneural
Space Industry; Academia
NASA Missions
Space Research,
Development, And
ExploraRon
Technology And Economic
CompeRRveness
NaRonal Defense And
Security SoluRon Space
Robust Aerospace Industry & CompeRRve Advantage
Spin-‐off Technologies for Non-‐Space ApplicaRons
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Innovation in Outreach and Education
Instituting Science in Schools, Chabot Science Center
Yuri’s Night Education Day
Exploration Day at Ames
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Thanx for your attention!
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OCT - Complete Technology Maturation Pipeline
• Space Technology Research Grants
• NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)
• Center Innovation Fund
• Centennial Challenges Prize
• Small Business Innovation Research & Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR)
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST
• Game Changing Development
• Franklin Small Satellite Subsystem Technologies
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• Flight Opportunities
• Technology Demonstration Missions
• Edison Small Satellite Demonstration Missions
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NASA SPACE TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP TECHNICAL AREA BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE
Big Nine Projects
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ARC Technology Expertise
Areas
Small Spacecra2 Systems and Technologies Biological
Technologies and ApplicaRons
Space and Earth Science and Space Physics
Technologies and ApplicaRons
Human and RoboRc
ExploraRon Technologies
InformaRon Systems, ComputaRon,
CommunicaRons, and Intelligent Systems Hypersonics, EDL
Technologies
Sensors, Instruments, Devices,Materials ,
Photonics, OpRcs, Imaging
Nano-‐ and Micro-‐ Technologies and
Systems
Sustainable and Sustaining
Technologies
NASA Missions
STEM Commercial,
Entrepreneurial Space
National Interests
AeronauRcs
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Active Initiatives 1. Small Spacecraft and Missions Enterprise (SSME) 2. Biological Technologies for Life Beyond Low Earth
Orbit (BT4LBLEO) 3. Science Instruments for Small Missions (SISM) 4. Advanced Digital Materials and Manufacturing for Space
(ADMMS) 5. Designing High-Confidence Software and Systems (DHCSS) 6. Cyber-Physical Systems Modeling and Analysis (CPSMA)
Other Suggested Initiatives 1. First Responder, Emergency, and Diasaster Assistance
(FREDA) 2. Emerging Aeronautics Systems and Technologies (EAST) 3. GREEN Technologies (Technologies for Sustainability)
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