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  • NASA Taps University Teams for Mars Solar Power Tech Ideas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps University Teams for Mars Solar Power Tech Ideas

    NASA has launched a challenge for university students to submit concepts for solar power systems that can work to produce power on Mars in daytime and nighttime. The 2018 Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing Idea Challenge seeks solar array designs that will fit into a single cargo launch, deploy robotically on Mars’ surface and start power generation […] More

  • NASA Picks Honeywell, UMPQUA Proposals for Deep Space Oxygen Recovery Tech Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Picks Honeywell, UMPQUA Proposals for Deep Space Oxygen Recovery Tech Devt

    NASA has selected proposals from Honeywell and UMPQUA Research to develop technology platforms designed to increase oxygen recovery from exhaled carbon dioxide to at least 75 percent and reduce oxygen resupply for future long-duration spaceflight missions. The companies will each receive up to $2 million in funds to develop their technologies over a two-year performance […] More

  • Five University Teams to Submit In-Space Spacecraft Assembly Concepts Under NASA Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Five University Teams to Submit In-Space Spacecraft Assembly Concepts Under NASA Challenge

    Five university teams will submit concepts for in-space spacecraft assembly as part of a challenge sponsored by the Game-Changing Development Program of NASA‘s space technology mission directorate. NASA said Dec. 16 one team each from Tulane University and University of Colorado Boulder, two from University of Maryland and one combined team from Georgia Institute of Technology, University of […] More

  • NASA Picks 4 Proposals for Deep Space Solar Array Tech Development Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Picks 4 Proposals for Deep Space Solar Array Tech Development Program

    NASA has chosen four proposals to enter contract negotiations as part of a program to develop solar array technologies to operate in high-radiation and low-temperature environments for future deep space missions. The space agency said Tuesday initial contract awards have a value of $400,000 each and cover a nine-month period of design, testing and analysis work for the Game Changing Development program. […] More