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NIAC 2022 Phase I and Phase II Selections

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graphic sampling of 2022 phase 1 and 2 award concepts.
Graphic montage of 2022 NIAC Phase I and Phase II awardees. Credits: (clockwise from upper R) Mather, Pilinski, Sauder, Benkoski, Lubin, Seager, Manchester, Schaler, D’Onghia, Dunbar, Bayandor, Pavone

PHASE I

Darmindra Arumugam
Cryospheric Rydberg Radar
NASA JPL
Pasadena, CA 91109-8001
2022 Phase I

Steven Barrett
Silent, Solid-State Propulsion for Advanced Air Mobility Vehicles
MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139-4301
2022 Phase I

Jason Benkoski
Combined Heat Shield and Solar Thermal Propulsion System for an Oberth Manuever
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218-0001
2022 Phase I

Elena D’Onghia
CREW HaT: Cosmic Radiation Extended Warding using the Halbach Torus
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI 53706-1507
2022 Phase I

Bonnie Dunbar
The Spacesuit Digital Thread: 4.0 Manufacture of Custom High Performance Spacesuits for the Exploration of Mars
Texas A&M
College Station, TX 77843-3141
2022 Phase I

Ivan Ermanoski
Breathing Mars Air: Stationary and Portable O2 Generation
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0001
2022 Phase I

Philip Lubin
Pi – Terminal Defense for Humanity

University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001
2022 Phase I

John Mather
Hybrid Observatory for Earth-like Exoplanets (HOEE)
NASA GSFC
Greenbelt, MD 20771-2400
2022 Phase I

Marcin Pilinski
In-situ Neutral-Optics Velocity Analyzer for Thermospheric Exploration (INOVATE)
University of Colorado, Boulder
Boulder, CO 80303-7819
2022 Phase I

Jonathan Sauder
Starburst: A Revolutionary Under-Constrained Adaptable Deployable Structure Architecture
NASA JPL
Pasadena, CA 91109-8001
2022 Phase I

Sara Seager
Venus Atmosphere and Cloud Particle Sample Return for Astrobiology
MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139-4301
2022 Phase I

Mahmooda Sultana
SCOPE: ScienceCraft for Outer Planet Exploration
NASA GSFC
Greenbelt, MD 20771-2400
2022 Phase I

PHASE II

Javid Bayandor
BREEZE- Bioinspired Ray for Extreme Environments and Zonal Exploration
State University of New York
Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-0001
2022 Phase II

Zac Manchester
Kilometer-Scale Space Structures from a Single Launch
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3815
2022 Phase II

E Nemanick
Atomic Planar Power for Lightweight Exploration (APPLE)
The Aerospace Corporation
El Segundo, CA 90245-4609
2022 Phase II

Marco Pavone
ReachBot: Small Robot for Large Mobile Manipulation Tasks in Martian Cave Environments
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4008
2022 Phase II

Ethan Schaler
SWIM- Sensing with Independent Micro-swimmers
NASA JPL
Pasadena, CA 91109-8001
2022 Phase II

PHASE III

Amber Dubill
Diffractive Solar Sailing
Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory
Laurel, MD 20723-0001
2022 Phase III