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The Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) held its first Technology Exchange Conference (TEC), November 14 and 15, at the Galveston Island Convention Center in Galveston, TX. The conference was attended by a total of 324 participants, including government, industry, national laboratories, and academic representatives.

The objective of the conference was to facilitate an open exchange of dialogue between potential NASA partners, and to seek out collaborations on future, innovative technologies. The two-day conference included a series of splinter sessions categorized by the following ESMD Themes: Structures Material and Mechanisms, Propulsion, Extravehicular Activity (EVA), In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU), Dust Mitigation, Avionics, Energy Storage & Power Systems, Thermal Control, Human Systems and Robotics, Software, Environmental Control and Life Support, Supportability, Innovative Partnerships Program and Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Business Model, Constellation University Institutes Project and Space Grant Consortia, and Advanced Communication Systems.

The TEC featured one-on-one sessions, looking to give potential future partners the opportunity to openly exchange new ideas and demonstrate new ground-breaking technologies for making the NASA’s new vision for space exploration a reality.

Presentations that were briefed during the two-day conference are available in PDF format below along with a listing of participants. Photos are available here.

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Advanced Communications
> Advanced Communication Systems (3.8 MB PDF )
> NASA's Lunar Communications & Navigation Architecture (5.6 MB PDF )

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Avionics
> Avionics for Exploration (2.3 MB PDF)

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Constellation University Institutes Project
> Constellation University Institutes Project (7.5 MB PDF)

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Energy Storage & Power Systems
> Energy Storage & Power Systems: Technology Needs and Gaps (1.6 MB PDF)
> Lunar Day video (14 MB AVI)
> Option 6 animation (4.5 MB WMV)
> Shackleton animation (7.7 MB AVI)

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Environmental Control Life Support System (ECLSS)
> Environmental Control Life Support System (ECLSS) (2.3 MB PDF)

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Extravehicular Activities
> EVA Technology Development Needs (3 MB PDF)

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Innovative Partnership Program/Commercial Orbital Transportation Systems
> Commercial Space Development - What's the Next? (5 MB PDF)
> Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP) (7.6 MB PDF)

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In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)
> NASA ISRU Development & Incorporation Plans (4.8 MB PDF)

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Lunar Dust
> Lunar Regolith Management (980 KB PDF)

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Propulsion
> Ares V Overview (2.5 MB PDF)
> Propulsion Government Panel (672 KB PDF)
> Lander Propulsion Overview and Technology Requirements Discussion (2.4 MB PDF)

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Robotics
> Human Systems & Robotics (4.7 MB PDF)

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Software
> Constellation Program Software Topics (956 KB PDF)
> Constellation Software and Autonomy Technology Needs (348 KB PDF)

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Structures Materials and Mechanisms
> Structures, Materials, and Mechanisms (1.1 MB PDF)

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Supportability
> Supportability Technology Needs (1.8 MB PDF)

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Thermal Control
> Thermal Control System for Exploration (1.1 MB PDF)

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The Technology Exchange Conference was attended by representatives of the following organizations:

3M ABSL Space Products ACENT Laboratories Ad Astra Rocket Company Advanced Powder Solutions, Inc AEgis Technologies Aeroflex Corporation Aerojet Aerospace Academy Air Force Research Laboratory Aitech Defense Systems Inc. Altair Engineering Amalgam Industries Andrews Space ARES Corporation Argon ST ATK Ball Aerospace Battelle Memorial Institute Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership Baylor University Bigelow Aerospace Boeing Space Exploration CAMBR/Univ of Idaho Cisco Systems, Inc. ClearValue, Inc. Configuration Control Crew Cubic Defense Applications Cx Lunar Surface Systems Project Office Draper Laboratory Energid Technologies ESC Group

ESCG/Barrios Exploration Architecture Corp (XARC) Exploration Partners, LLC GB Tech, Inc. General Dynamics C4 Systems GeoControl Systems, Inc. Hamilton-Sundstrand Harris Corporation Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. ILC Dover, LP INDUS Corporation INDUS Corporation Jacobs Engineering JAMSS America JHU/APL Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory KA/Oceaneering Space Systems L3 Communications - Titan Group Lockheed Martin Lohfeld Consulting Lunar Transportation Systems, Inc. Modern Computational Technologies, Inc. MRI Technologies MSFC - Jacobs Neptec USA Northrop Grumman Space Technology Oklahoma State University Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Paragon Space Development Corporation Payload Systems Inc. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

PSCI Raytheon RTI International S&K Aerospace SAIC Sandia National Laboratories Sea Green Communications SEAKR Engineering, Inc Sentara SICSA, University of Houston Siemens PLM Software SolGen Southwest Research Institute Space Dynamics Lab Space Key Components SpaceX Stanley Project Management Associates Stinger Ghaffarian Technolgy Teledyne Brown Engineering Texas A&M Center for Space Power Thin Red Line Aerospace Touri United Space Alliance (USA) University of Houston University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Maryland University of Southern Mississippi University Texas WASK Engineering Wyle