26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
...from industry and academia. Each will receive grants worth up to $125,000 from the NASA Innovative Advances Concepts (NIAC) programme to explore their concepts' feasibility. “NIAC Fellows are known to dream big, proposing technologies that may appear...
12 April 2016
Visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions
A number of new proposals made through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, could see the space agency transforming the way future missions are conducted by funding ...
16 May 2016
NASA Invests in the Future of Technological Development
Phase II of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program has started, with awards of up to $500,000 available for a two-year study. Proposers will be able to further develop concepts funded for Phase I studies that have successfully ...
28 August 2017
Clockwork rover considered for future Venus mission
..., a design that was first proposed in 2015 by Jonathan Sauder and is being funded for study by the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program. AREE is a clockwork rover inspired by mechanical computers, the type which use levers and gears to make...
