NASA SmallSat Technology Partnerships – 2022 Technology Exposition

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Want to learn about advanced SmallSat technologies that could enable your future mission or be accessed for commercialization? Sign up to attend the SmallSat Technology Partnerships (STP) Technology Exposition being held Wednesday, June 8.

The virtual STP TechExpo, co-hosted by NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology (SST) program and Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI), will highlight advanced communications and navigation capabilities, thermal, as well as in-space propulsion solutions from recent university-NASA partnerships funded under SST’s STP initiative. STP Principal Investigators in attendance will answer questions about technology transfer for your mission or product.

Technologies highlighted at the TechExpo include:

Communications and Navigation:

• Flat Panel Phased Array antennas with steerable beams using 5G RFICs,
• A high-precision continuous-time PNT compact module,
• Lunar surface feature-based navigation and timing,
• A small lunar communications and navigation system to provide simple messaging, surface navigation, relative navigation, orbit determination, and human location services
• Deployable optical receiver aperture for communications and navigation, and

Thermal and in-space Propulsion Technologies:

• Additively manufactured deployable radiator with oscillating heat pipes to enable high power cubesats
• 3-D Printed Hybrid Propulsion Solutions for smallsat lunar landing and sample return,
• Variable Specific Impulse Electrospray Thrusters, and
• Chemical-Electrospray Propulsion

The STP initiative receives proposals from U.S. universities partnered with a NASA Center. It has five primary objectives: develop needed SmallSat technologies for industry and NASA; provide academic teams with NASA expertise and facilities; leverage unique talents and fresh perspectives from the university community; engage university students in real-world SmallSat projects; and allow NASA engineers to gain insights into the innovative and rapid development paradigm typical of academia. The SST program has awarded five rounds of these awards since 2013. Projects are awarded for up to two years with subsequent opportunities for suborbital or orbital flight demonstrations.

We’ll see you there!