NASA advanced technology reports taken offline after export control issue, Space News “NASA has taken offline technical reports associated with a cutting-edge technology program out of concerns of a possible export control breach, an agency official said Aug. 24. Speaking at annual symposium of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program in Raleigh, North Carolina, Jason Derleth, the NIAC program executive at NASA Headquarters, said the final reports associated with […]
Announcing “Breakthrough Starshot”: Building Earth’s First Starships, SpaceRef “Plans for Earth’s first starships are being announced today in New York City. At a midday press conference, Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Prize Foundation is unveiling its latest project: “Breakthrough Starshot”. If Milner’s team can pull this off, people alive today could see starships depart from our planet and reach another star system within their lifetime. And everyone will be invited to help […]
Keith’s note: According to the last page of NASA INNOVATIVE ADVANCED CONCEPTS (NIAC), PHASE I APPENDIX NNH15ZOA0001N-NIAC_A3“, 21 August 2015: “7. NIAC Virtual Q&A Forum NASA will host a virtual forum that will address key aspects of this Appendix. The date targeted for this forum is tentatively Wednesday, September 9, 2015. Specific details for the forum will be posted on the following website: http://www.nasa.gov/niac.” Despite the language in the Appendix, […]
NIAC Announces Five Phase II Funded Concepts, SpaceRef Business “Looking ahead to an exciting future, NASA is continuing to invest in concepts that may one day revolutionize how we live and work in space with the selection of five technology proposals for continued study under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program.” The five studies chosen to advance to Phase II of the NIAC program include: — A concept for […]
2013 NASA Advanced Technology Phase I Concepts Selected For Study, NASA “NASA has selected 12 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program, which aims to turn science fiction into fact. The selected proposals include a wide range of imaginative concepts, including 3-D printing of biomaterials, such as arrays of cells; using galactic rays to map the insides of asteroids; and an “eternal flight” […]
NASA Issues Call for Visionary Advanced Technology Concepts “NASA’s Space Technology Program is looking for far-out ideas. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts, or NIAC, program is seeking proposals for revolutionary concepts with the potential to transform future aerospace missions. Proposed concepts should enable new capabilities or significantly alter current approaches to launching, building and operating space systems. NIAC projects are chosen for their innovative and visionary characteristics, technical substance, and […]
NASA Selects Visionary Advanced Technology Concepts For Study, NASA “NASA has selected 30 proposals for funding under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts, or NIAC, program. The advanced concepts selected for study under NIAC were chosen based on their potential to transform our future space missions, enable new capabilities or significantly alter current approaches to launching, building and operating space systems.” Some of the funded studies include: – Variable Vector Countermeasure […]
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase I Solicitation “NASA’s Office of Chief Technologist has announced the “NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)” Phase I Solicitation is now open. The NIAC Program seeks to inspire and nurture revolutionary concepts that could transform future aerospace endeavors. NIAC will fund early studies of visionary, long term concepts – aerospace architectures, systems, or missions (not focused technologies). The goal of NIAC is to give visionary […]
NRC: Fostering Visions for the Future: A Review of the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts, NRC “As requested by Congress, this volume reviews the effectiveness of NIAC and makes recommendations concerning the importance of such a program to NASA and to the nation as a whole, including the proper role of NASA and the federal government in fostering scientific innovation and creativity and in developing advanced concepts for future systems. […]
