Space

3 Extreme New Mission Concepts

From asteroid spaceships, to exploring ice volcanoes, let’s look at a few of the NIAC’s recently approved Phase I projects!

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Sources:
http://theskylive.com/pluto-info
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/adaptations/Hearing_(sense)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/journey-to-the-center-of-icy-moons
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/fusion-enabled-pluto-orbiter-and-lander
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/reconstituting-asteroids-into-mechanical-automata
http://www.madeinspace.us/
http://www.madeinspace.us/presskit/
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/NIAC_funded_studies.html
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/Mapping_studies_to_tech_areas.html

What Are Asteroids Made Of?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth

Three Hydrogen Isotopes: Protium, Deuterium, Tritium


http://robotics.usc.edu/~geoff/files/HollingerIROS11.pdf
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4913226&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst
https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/tasks/index.cfm
https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Masahiro_Ono/personFull.cfm
http://www.psatellite.com/author/sjthomas/
http://i2.wp.com/blog.psatellite.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Slide1.png
http://www.psatellite.com/tag/dfd/

Scientists to explore Saturn’s icy moon for alien life


http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/scientists-to-look-for-aliens-on-jupiter-and-saturns-icy-moons-1399102

IMAGES:

Enceladus’s tiger stripes
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060310.html

Enceladus geysers
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091124.html

Illustration of Europa’s subsurface ocean
http://geology.com/stories/13/life-on-europa/

Illustration of asteroid spaceship
http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/13/nasa-niac-phase-1-2016/

Made In Space testing microgravity 3D printer
http://www.madeinspace.us/presskit/images/big/Team-micro_gravity_test_2013.png

The 3D printer that’s on the ISS
http://www.space.com/26230-3d-printer-international-space-station.html

Illustration of New Horizons approaching Pluto
http://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-pluto-what-happens-next

Testing Direct Fusion Drive (images on page 5)
http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/1182281/

New Horizon’s trajectory to Pluto (showing it moving further out in its orbit)

Pluto probe peril


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-09/pluto-comes-into-focus/6566818
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/12/08/new-horizons-wakes-up-for-historic-pluto-encounter/

http://www.madeinspace.us/presskit/images/big/MIS_printer_patch.png

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/niac_dunn.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth-1874.jpg
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091124.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060310.html
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/journey-to-the-center-of-icy-moons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enceladus_south_pole_SE15.png
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/sandy-selfie-sent-from-nasa-mars-rover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kamar_Zard_Buzhan_-_Nishapur_1.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seaexplorer_diving.jpg
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/fusion-enabled-pluto-orbiter-and-lander

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