MACROVU ® ANALYTICS
NASA Strategic Research Display Project

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BRIEFING ON KNOWLEDGE MAPS

1. NASA Interim Briefing - 2. (Powerpoint Show)
Presented to the Commercial Advisory Subcommittee (May 2003) and RPC Directors (May 2003)

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POSTERS

1. Programs of the Resource Partnership Centers (RPCs) Related to Goal 3 of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2003 Strategic Plan (PDF)

2. Programs of the Resource Partnership Centers (RPCs) Related to Goal 8 of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2003 Strategic Plan (PDF)

3. Programs of the Resource Partnership Centers (RPCs) Related to Goal 9 of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2003 Strategic Plan (PDF)

4. Programs of the Resource Partnership Centers (RPCs) Related to Goal 10 of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2003 Strategic Plan (PDF)

5. Programs of the Resource Partnership Centers (RPCs) Basic Research Activities Related to Goals and Objectives of the NASA 2003 Strategic Plan (PDF)

 

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CURRENT DESCRIPTIONS OF RPC PROJECTS:

You can download a PDF file of any of these descriptions of RPC research projects by clicking on the name.

Then open the file in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download it for free at Adobe Acrobat Reader

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PROPULSION AND SPACE VEHICLES

Electric Propulsion Systems - Center for Space Power and Advanced Electronics, Space Research Institute, Auburn University, Auburn University, AL (PDF)

High Temperature, Radiation Tolerant, Smart SiC Circuits - Center for Space Power and Advanced Electronics, Space Research Institute, Auburn University, Auburn University, AL (PDF)

Combustion Rockets - Center for Commercial Applications of Combustion in Space (CCACS), Colorado School of Mines (PDF)

Thermophysical Properties of Molten Metals - Solidification Design Center (SDC), Auburn University (PDF)

Vortex Phase Separator , The Center for Space Power, Texas A&M (PDF)

SAFETY and LESS WEIGHT, VOLUME, AND COST

Water Mist Fire Suppression - The Center for Commercial Applications of Combustion in Space, Colorado School of Mines (PDF)

Common (Standardized) Carriers - Center for Biophysical Science and Engineering , University of Alabama, Birmingham (PDF)

Resource Processing in Space - Center for Commercial Applications of Combustion in Space, (Lead.) (PDF)

NAVIGATION

Star Tracker Technology - The Spacecraft Technology Center (STC) at Texas A&M University, formerly known as the Commercial Space Center for Engineering (PDF)

ENERGY

Magnetic Bearings for Aerospace Flywheels - Center for Space Power, Texas A & M (PDF)

Composite Materials for Flywheels - Center for Space Power and Advanced Electronics, Space Research Institute, Auburn University, Auburn University, AL (PDF)

Improved Hydrogen Storage Media - Center for Advanced Microgravity Material Processing (CAMMP) at Northeastern University, Boston MA (PDF)

Carbon Nanotubes - Center for Advanced Microgravity Material Processing (CAMMP) at Northeastern University, Boston MA (PDF)

Novel Thermophotovoltaic Device for Direct Heat to Electricity Conversion - Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials (PDF)

Supercapacitor Energy Storage - Center for Space Power and Advanced Electronics, Space Research Institute, Auburn University, Auburn University, AL (PDF)

Design & Development of New (Epitaxial) Thin Film Solid Oxide Fuel Cell - Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials at University of Houston (PDF)

In-Situ Fabrication of Lunar Solar Cells - Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials at University of Houston (PDF)

Multiquantum Well Multijunction Solar Cells - Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials (formerly SVEC) at University of Houston (PDF) in process

Fuel Cells and Hybrid Energy Systems - Center for Space Power and Advanced Electronics, Space Research Institute, Auburn University, Auburn University, AL (PDF)

 

ASTRONAUT HEALTH

Medical Systems for Remote Diagnostics and Treatment - Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium (MITAC), a center of excellence in telemedicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University (PDF)

Biosensors - Detectors for Biological Organisms/Biological Functions - Center for Biophysical Science and Engineering (PDF)

Vortex Phase Separator - The Center for Space Power, Texas A&M, a NASA Research Partnership Center (PDF)

COMMUNCIATIONS

Quad HD-Max System - NASA Imaging Technology Space Center (ITSC), Florida Atlantic University (PDF)

Broadband Multimedia Group Communications Over Hybrid Wireless Networks - The Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks, a NASA Research Partnership Center (PDF)

Hyperspectral Imaging - ProVision Technologies (PDF)

UNDERSTANDING LIFE

Forest Products Consortium/Lignin Research- BioServe Space Technologies (PDF)

Plant Biotech Research in Space - Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics (WCSAR), Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (PDF)

Microbial Antibiotic Production - BioServe Space Technologies, University of Colorado-Boulder (PDF)

IMPROVING LIFE HERE

Bone Loss - Osteoprotegerin - BioServe Space Technologies, University of Colorado (PDF)

Porous Ceramics for Bone Replacement - Center for Commercial Applications of Combustion in Space, Colorado School of Mines (PDF)

Protein Crystal Growth and Structure Based Drug Discovery - Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham (PDF)

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MacroVU Analytics - Project Director - Robert E. Horn (homepage)

To contact: hornbob@earthlink.net