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NIAC 2019 Phase I, Phase II and Phase III Selections

Contents

Sampling of several NIAC 2019 Selections

PHASE I

Javid Bayandor
BREEZE- Bioinspired Ray for Extreme Environments and Zonal Exploration

University at Buffalo – The State University of New York
Buffalo, NY 14260-8000

Erik Brandon
Power Beaming for Long Life Venus Surface Missions
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA 91109-8001

Ana Diaz Artiles
SmartSuit: A Hybrid, Intelligent, and Highly Mobile EVA Spacesuit for Next Generation Exploration Missions
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
College Station, TX 77843-0001

Tom Ditto
Dual Use Exoplanet Telescope (DUET)
3DeWitt LLC
Ancramdale, NY 12503-0010

Yu Gu
Micro-Probes Propelled and Powered by Planetary Atmospheric Electricity (MP4AE)
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506-6106

Troy Howe
SPEAR Probe – An Ultra Lightweight Nuclear Electric Propulsion Probe for Deep Space Exploration
Howe Industries LLC
Tempe, AZ 85281-8473

Noam Izenberg
RIPS: Ripcord Innovative Power System
Johns Hopkins University
Laurel, MD 20723-6005

Geoffrey Landis
Power for Interstellar Fly-by
NASA Glenn Research Center
Cleveland, OH 44135-3127

Joel Sercel
Lunar-Polar Propellant Mining Outpost (LPMO): Affordable Exploration and Industrialization
TransAstra Corporation
Lake View Terrace, CA 91342-6810

John Slough
Crosscutting High Apogee Refueling Orbital Navigator (CHARON) for Active Debris Removal
MSNW LLC
Redmond, WA 98052-3557

George Sowers
Thermal Mining of Ices on Cold Solar System Bodies
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401-1833

Robert Staehle
Low-Cost SmallSats to Explore to Our Solar System’s Boundaries
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA 91109-8001

PHASE II

Tom Ditto
The High Étendue Multiple Object Spectrographic Telescope (THE MOST)
3DeWitt LLC
Acramdale, NY 12503-0010

John Kendra
Rotary-Motion-Extended Array Synthesis (R-MXAS)
Leidos, Inc.
Reston, VA 20190-0000

Chris Limbach
Self-Guided Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
College Station, TX 77843-0001

Nickolas Solomey
Astrophysics and Technical Lab Studies of a Solar Neutrino Spacecraft Detector
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS 67260-9700

Grover Swartzlander
Diffractive Lightsails
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY 14623-5604

Doug Willard
Solar Surfing
NASA Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center, FL 32780-0000

PHASE III

William Whittaker
Robotic Technologies Enabling the Exploration of Lunar Pits
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3815

Joel Sercel
Mini Bee Prototype to Demonstrate the Apis Mission Architecture and Optical Mining Technology
TransAstra Corporation
Lake View Terrace, CA 91342-6810