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Artemis Media Resources
Media ContactsNASA Headquarters: Kathryn Hambleton, Rachel Kraft, Vanessa Lloyd, 202-358-1100 Latest Updates: Artemis blog Briefings Artemis Update (Jan 9, 2024) Related Resources Artemis WHAT/WHY/HOWArtemis Accords Program and Project ResourcesEducation and STEM Engagement Broadcast and…
Orbital-1 Launch’s 10th Anniversary
NASA/Bill Ingalls An Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Northrop Grumman) Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft launches from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Thursday, January 9, 2014. The Orbital-1…
Early Stage Innovations (ESI) 2023
Back to ESI HomeAdvancing Radiation-Hardened Photon Counting Sensor Technologies Karl Berggren Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation hardness study of superconducting detectors and electronics Donald Figer Rochester Institute of Technology Advancing…
Continuous Bending-mode Elastocaloric Composite Refrigeration System for Compact, Lightweight, High-Efficiency Cooling
Nenad Miljkovic University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignTraditional elastocaloric refrigeration systems are based on uniaxial compression of the elastocaloric material which makes them highly constrained by actuator requirements, the physics of…
Advancing Elastocaloric Refrigeration through Co-design of Materials and Systems
Patrick Shamberger Texas A&M UniversityElastocaloric materials heat up or cool down when stress is applied to them or removed. The objective of this grant is to develop improved elastocaloric effect…
Physics-based Modeling and Tool Development for the Characterization and Uncertainty Quantification of Crater Formation and Ejecta Dynamics due to Plume-surface Interaction
David Scarborough Auburn UniversityProfessor Scarborough will develop and implement tools to extract critical data from experimental measurements of plume surface interaction (PSI) to identify and classify dominant regimes, develop physics-based,…
Integrating Data-Driven and Physics-Based Models for Plume-Surface Interaction Predictions
Laura Villafane University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignRocket engine exhaust during lunar landings can blow away a large amount of lunar regolith causing damage to nearby hardware and the landing spacecraft…
Advancing Radiation-Hardened CMOS Detectors for NASA Missions
Donald Figer Rochester Institute of TechnologyThe objective of this grant is to investigate methods to reduce and mitigate the effects of radiation damage on single-photon counting and photon number resolving…
Radiation hardness study of superconducting detectors and electronics
Karl Berggren Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySuperconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are a promising new ultra-sensitive and low-noise detectors for applications ranging from deep-space exploration to ultrafast space-based optical quantum communication…
Test
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 11:50 EST on March 6, 2020, carrying the uncrewed cargo…