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IceCube: Spaceflight Validation of an 883-GHz Submillimeter Wave Radiometer f...
Develop and validate a commercially available flight-qualified 874-GHz receiver to enable future cloud ice remote sensing from space Technologies include submillimeter wave... -
Sample Return Systems for Extreme Environments
In Phase I we were able to demonstrate that sample return missions utilizing high velocity penetrators (0.1- 1 km/s) could provide substantial new capabilities for sample return... -
iISCE: InSAR Scientific Computing Environment on the Cloud
• Extend the ISCE software toolkit to support UAVSAR data formats and metadata • Extend the ISCE framework to enable the seamless handling of extremely large data files • Extend... -
Titan Submarine: Exploring the Depths of Kraken
Titan is unique in the outer solar system in that it is the only one of the bodies outside the Earth with liquid lakes and seas on its surface. The Titanian seas, however, are... -
Aneutronic Fusion Spacecraft Architecture
Description: provide framework to realize fusion propulsion for long-range space travel; analyze "hybrid" schemes with a solar or fission primary energy source along with a... -
LVIS Integration onto Global Hawk
Integrate LVIS lidar capability onto the Global Hawk (GH) to enable high altitude mapping of land, vegetation, and ice Provide operational capability and data storage... -
Advancement of the O2 Subsystem to Demonstrate Retrieval of XCO2 Using Simult...
Achieve scalability of a 1.26 µm fiber Raman amplifier (FRA) to 5W with an optical-to-optical efficiency of >50%, that is compatible with ITT’s modulated CW... -
A Gravitational Wave Detector Based on an Atom Interferometer
Gravitational waves are tiny perturbations in the curvature of space-time that arise from accelerating masses – according to Einstein's general theory of relativity. The first... -
Ghost Imaging of Space Objects
This team is studying whether or not quantum diffraction can increase the amount of information a telescope can receive from distant stars and galaxies. Particularly important... -
High Efficiency, Digitally Calibrated TR Modules Enabling Lightweight SweepSA...
Develop and demonstrate a next-generation digitally calibrated, highly scalable, L-band Transmit/Receive (TR) module to enable a precision beamforming SweepSAR architecture... -
Autonomous, On-board Processing for Sensor Systems
Fuse high performance reconfigurable processors with emerging fault-tolerance & autonomous processing techniques for a 10-100x decrease in processing time. This... -
HgCdTe Infrared Avalanche Photodiode Single Photon Detector Arrays for the LI...
Develop a HgCdTe avalanche photodiode (APD) SWIR/IR linear mode photon counting (LMPC) array detector system in support of the LIST lidar. Provide a new type of... -
Development and Integration of a Pulsed 2-micron Direct Detection Integrated ...
Develop, integrate and demonstrate a 2-micron pulsed Integrated Path Differential Absorption Lidar (IPDA) instrument CO2 Column Measurement from Airborne platform... -
Widely Tunable Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) Local Oscillator for Infrared Hete...
Investigate use of widely tunable, external cavity quantum cascade laser (QCL) as local oscillator for Infrared Heterodyne Earth Atmospheric Remote Spectrometer (IHEARS) Science... -
Improving Interactivity and Interoperability in the Regional Climate Model Ev...
Enable comparison metrics and evaluation for IPCC assessments, the National Climate Assessment (NCA), and Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX)... -
A Compact Remote Sensing Lidar for High Resolution Measurements of Methane
• Develop the technology for a compact, space-qualifiable laser transmitter for a lidar operating at 1.65 µ to enable Earth observation CH4 measurements. • Reduce the... -
The Aragoscope: Ultra-High Resolution Optics at Low Cost
The diagram shows a conventional telescope pointed at an opaque disk along an axis to a distant target. Rather than block the view, the disk boosts the resolution of the system... -
Engineering Model Panchromatic Fourier Transform Spectrometer (PanFTS) Instru...
The Panchromatic Fourier Transform Spectrometer (PanFTS) is an imaging spectrometer that can measure pollutants, greenhouse gases, and aerosols as called for in the Decadal...