NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts
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| 2024 | NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) selected thirteen innovative space exploration and technology projects in Phase I, covering diverse research areas including interstellar exploration, Mars missions, advanced propulsion, and space health technologies. |
| 2023 | NIAC also selected six projects for continuation into Phase II, including advanced concepts in quantum radar, propulsion, planetary defense, and space observation technologies. |
| 2023 | NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) selected fourteen innovative projects for Phase I, covering a wide range of space exploration, scientific observation, and technological advancement concepts. |
| 2022 | NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) selected twelve innovative projects for Phase I funding, including research proposals from scientists like Darmindra Arumugam, Steven Barrett, and Sara Seager covering diverse space and exploration technologies. |
| 2022 | Amber Dubill's Diffractive Solar Sailing project was selected for continuation into Phase III, marking a significant advancement in solar sail technology research. |
| 2022 | NIAC selected five projects to continue into Phase II, including Javid Bayandor's BREEZE project and Zac Manchester's Kilometer-Scale Space Structures initiative. |
| 2021 | Nickolas Solomey's Cube-Sat Space Flight Test of a Neutrino Detector was selected for continuation into Phase III, marking a significant milestone in space technology research. |
| 2021 | Six projects were selected for continuation into Phase II, including Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay's Lunar Crater Radio Telescope and Lynn Rothschild's Mycotecture Off Planet project. |
| 2021 | NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) selected sixteen innovative projects in Phase I, including groundbreaking space exploration and planetary research concepts from researchers like Sarbajit Banerjee, Sigrid Close, and Amelia Greig. |
| 2020 | NIAC continued six projects into Phase II, featuring advanced exploration technologies such as an innovative astronaut offloading system, a lightweight planetary probe, and a nuclear electric propulsion probe for deep space exploration. |
| 2020 | NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) selected sixteen innovative space exploration projects in Phase I, including unique concepts like a Lunar Crater Radio Telescope, autonomous spacecraft navigation, and extreme metamaterial solar sails. |
| 2020 | One project by Slava Turyshev was selected for continuation into Phase III, focusing on direct multipixel imaging and spectroscopy of an exoplanet using a solar gravitational lens mission. |
| 2019 | Six projects were selected for continuation into Phase II, including proposals by Tom Ditto, John Kendra, Chris Limbach, Nickolas Solomey, Grover Swartzlander, and Doug Willard, focusing on advanced space exploration and research technologies. |
| 2019 | Two projects were selected for Phase III: William Whittaker's Robotic Technologies for Lunar Pit Exploration and Joel Sercel's Mini Bee Prototype for demonstrating Apis Mission Architecture and Optical Mining Technology. |
| 2019 | NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) selected twelve innovative projects for Phase I, including research proposals from Javid Bayandor, Erik Brandon, Ana Diaz Artiles, Tom Ditto, Yu Gu, Troy Howe, Noam Izenberg, Geoffrey Landis, Joel Sercel, John Slough, George Sowers, and Robert Staehle, covering diverse space exploration technologies and mission concepts. |
| 2018 | NIAC also selected nine projects for Phase II continuation, focusing on advanced propulsion, space exploration, and innovative mission concepts such as the Triton Hopper, Solar Gravity Lens Mission, and Magnetospheric Protection technologies. |
| 2018 | NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) selected sixteen innovative Phase I projects spanning diverse space exploration and technological research domains, including concepts like Marsbees, Shapeshifters, and interstellar propulsion technologies. |
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