KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Worldwide House Station (ISS) Nationwide Laboratory in the present day launched a brand new analysis announcement soliciting flight ideas for “Know-how Development and Utilized Analysis Leveraging the ISS Nationwide Lab.” This solicitation is open to a broad vary of expertise areas together with chemical and materials synthesis in house, bonding, translational medication, in-space edge computing and on-demand cloud computing applied sciences, and the usage of ISS distant sensing knowledge to enhance geospatial analytics for business use.

House-based expertise improvement and demonstration is a strategic precedence for the ISS Nationwide Lab, because it supplies a possibility for accelerated expertise maturation to allow developments that enhance life on Earth and construct commerce in low Earth orbit. By means of this analysis announcement, offerors might suggest to make use of the distinctive ISS setting to develop, check, or mature merchandise and processes which have a demonstrated potential to provide near-term and optimistic direct or oblique financial impression.

Extra particularly, emphasis will probably be positioned on proposals for the testing and house qualification of {hardware} prototypes and for advancing course of enhancements, akin to (however not restricted to):

  • {Hardware} prototype testing: Improvements addressing {hardware} product improvement gaps and rising expertise proliferation within the areas of computing, electronics, nanotechnologies, robotics, sensors, communications, distant sensing, and satellite tv for pc expertise.
  • Course of enhancements: Use of the ISS as a check mattress for advancing improvement of services for high-throughput investigations, use of space-based knowledge to facilitate modeling of business programs, or demonstration of latest methodologies for spaceflight analysis and improvement.
  • Superior supplies: Present superior supplies analysis that addresses the event of next-generation manufacturing strategies, the testing of novel supplies, and the exploitation of supplies with distinctive properties.
  • Translational medication: Validation of accelerated illness modeling, analyzation of macromolecular constructions for drug design, and demonstration of novel drug supply and diagnostic providers.

This analysis announcement will comply with a two-step proposal submission course of. Earlier than being invited to submit a full proposal, all investigators should submit a Step 1: Idea Abstract for overview. The Heart for the Development of Science in House, Inc. (CASIS), supervisor of the ISS Nationwide Lab, will host a webinar on Thursday, March 9, 2023, at 2 p.m. EST to debate ISS services and capabilities related to this analysis announcement. A recording of the webinar will probably be made out there to the analysis group by means of the analysis announcement webpage.

Step 1: Idea Summaries have to be submitted by finish of day on April 17, 2023. Step 2: Full Proposals (from these invited to submit) will probably be due by finish of day July 17, 2023.

Flight ideas chosen by way of this analysis announcement could also be awarded funding to allow mission integration and operations help for tasks that will probably be applied on the ISS. The overall put aside funding for this analysis announcement is roughly $750,000, with an expectation to make three to 5 awards. To be taught extra about this chance, together with the way to submit a Step 1: Idea Abstract, please go to the analysis announcement webpage. To be taught extra in regards to the ISS Nationwide Lab and the science that it sponsors, please go to our web site at www.ISSNationalLab.org.

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Concerning the Worldwide House Station (ISS) Nationwide Laboratory: The Worldwide House Station (ISS) is a one-of-a-kind laboratory that allows analysis and expertise improvement not attainable on Earth. As a public service enterprise, the ISS Nationwide Lab permits researchers to leverage this multiuser facility to enhance life on Earth, mature space-based enterprise fashions, advance science literacy sooner or later workforce, and increase a sustainable and scalable market in low Earth orbit. By means of this orbiting nationwide laboratory, analysis sources on the ISS can be found to help non-NASA science, expertise and schooling initiatives from U.S. authorities companies, educational establishments, and the non-public sector. The Heart for the Development of Science in House, Inc. (CASIS) manages the ISS Nationwide Lab, below Cooperative Settlement with NASA, facilitating entry to its everlasting microgravity analysis setting, a robust vantage level in low Earth orbit, and the acute and assorted situations of house. To be taught extra in regards to the ISS Nationwide Lab, go to www.ISSNationalLab.org.

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