12 April 2016
Visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions
...ground, and to support initial definition and analysis of their concepts, NIAC Phase I awards are valued at approximately $100,000 for a ...missions to icy moons through micro-landers. “The 2016 NIAC Phase I competition was fierce, as usual. All of...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... be avoided. Schaler has also been awarded funding another NIAC Phase I study in parallel for a concept called SWIM... number of new participants in the program this year,” said NIAC Program Executive Jason Derleth. “All but two of the researchers...
16 May 2016
NASA Invests in the Future of Technological Development
...propulsion, or any one of the other amazing Phase II studies NIAC is funding, I'm thrilled to welcome these innovations and their ...the program. Hopefully, they will all go on to do what NIAC does best - change the possible.” All projects are still in...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
...giant radio telescope. NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is a platform that each year nurtures visionary ideas... Apollo 8 Earthrise photo,” Derleth said. For a full list of NIAC 2020 Phase I, Phase II and Phase III Selections, click here (...
31 July 2019
GLEE mission aims to send 500 LunaSats to the Moon
... Lab, Lockheed Martin and SpaceX. In 2007, Peck was awarded $75,000 by NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) to study how a large fleet of small space probes in Earth orbit might travel significant distances by using planetary...
28 September 2016
Musk unveils ambitious plans for Mars
SpaceX entrepreneur Elon Musk brought high drama and a remarkable vision of the future to the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) being held in the Mexican ‘Silicon Valley’ city of Guadalaraja this week. Musk took centre stage on Tuesday to ...
